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It looks as if the Obama Administration is set to shut down Yucca Mountain. Is this the end? Will there be any other use for the repository? And how will…

The rate of teen pregnancy is again on the rise. After the great debate about whether abstinence or contraceptive education was more successful, it…

A Nevada company has been accused of bringing rare metals from mines in some of the most troubled areas of the world - the Congo. We talk with an official…

The Second Annual Young Men's Conference is taking place Saturday at the West Las Vegas Arts Center. The conference is designed to offer life skills to…

The Nevada Supreme Court has killed the applications lodged more than 20 years ago by the Southern Nevada Water Authority and the Las Vegas Valley Water…

It's pretty bad. But how bad. We talk with Jeremy Aguero of Applied Analysis to find out why Las Vegas continues to bump along the bottom of the chart and…

Women in Science still face challenges that male counterparts do not. So says the Director of the Clayman Institute of Gender Research at Stanford…

Veterans have been sold short for decades, argues Matthew LaPlante. He's the author of a new series on the failure to give veterans the benefits they need…

University of Chicago philosopher Martha Nussbaum argues in a forthcoming book that we are in a crisis because we have ignored the liberal arts. Just…

University of Chicago economist Steven D. Levitt has become famous with his off-beat analysis in Freakonomics and Super Freakonomics. The new book looks…