Nevada's non-profit research institute, founded in 1959 to empower experts to focus on science that matters. Working with communities across the state-and the world-to address their most pressing scientific questions, while building bridges between scientists and policymakers to enact positive change.

Their scientists continuously produce solutions that better human and environmental health. Pioneering the use of chemical fingerprinting to identify sources of air pollution in Nevada's cities and reduce haze in National Parks across the country. They work with communities downwind of historic atomic testing at the Nevada Nation Security Site to monitor radiation exposure. Have used ice trapped below the surface of Greenland to connect historic levels of lead pollution with the rise and fall of ancient economies like the Roman Empire. For decades, have used satellite technology to locate, and build, drinking water wells for communities in Ghana and have enhanced precipitation throughout Nevada, the driest state in the nation, using decades of research on cloud seeding.