Topic: science and technology

Phishing hook on keyboard
Campus News | October 16, 2023

A high security score challenge and other fun activities help students, faculty, and staff take charge of their online lives.

archival photo of man working in tv control room
UNLV History | September 8, 2023

Groundbreaking for its time, nursing students from UNLV and UNR were able to learn and debate via a live, two-way statewide microwave link.

China's FAST radio telescope
Research | July 28, 2023

International team reports on a radio pulsar phase of a Galactic magnetar that emitted a fast radio burst in 2020; observations suggest unique origins for “bursts” and “pulses," which adds to FRB formation theory.
 

illustration of a microquasar in outer space
Research | July 26, 2023

An international team of scientists reports in Nature the first detection of a quasi-periodic oscillation signal in the radio band from a Galactic black hole system.

image from the James Webb telescope
People | June 16, 2023

From de facto time machines to the story behind your TV static, UNLV cosmologist and computer scientist Paul La Plante shares four facts you probably didn’t know about the universe.

AI-generated image of a workshop
Campus News | May 19, 2023

Instructors and employees explored ChatGPT, artificial intelligence detection, and other tools with technology professionals from the online education and information technology offices.