The top U.S. public health agency said Monday that the coronavirus can spread more than 6 feet through the air, especially in poorly ventilated and enclosed spaces. But agency officials maintained that such spread is uncommon and current social distancing guidelines still make sense.
The U.S. will ban the use of the Chinese app WeChat on Sunday, citing national security concerns.
It’s months away from completion, but the entrepreneur who brought us Tesla and SpaceX in addition to The Boring Co. tunnel transit project wants to move people quickly.
A Las Vegas company that sells fraud prevention software has begun mass layoff days after its CEO abruptly resigned, throwing the company into a tailspin and prompting an internal investigation.
Andrew Pascal set out to build an app to aid in contact tracing in the state. He ended up bankrolling a privacy-centered solution to help all the state’s residents.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed Thursday that the company’s Nevada factory was the target of a “serious” cybersecurity hack.
After months of working from home, some customers are receiving their first notices that they are approaching their monthly internet data plan limit.
Zoom experienced partial outages during the first day of school for thousands of students who are relying on the video conferencing technology to connect with educators.
Last year the Southern Nevada Health District declared an outbreak after recording the most West Nile cases in a season. In 2020, no cases have been reported in Clark County.
“California has a really flammable ecosystem,” says University of Colorado fire scientist Jennifer Balch. “People are living in flammable places, providing ignition, starting the wildfires against a backdrop of a warming climate that is making wildfires worse.”
Nevada has more than 300 species of endemic plants and animals, which are critical to maintaining the state’s ecosystem.
A Las Vegas paleontologist is still studying the specimens to confirm that his suspicion is true — that the fossils are from the extinct Ice Age helmeted musk ox.
A fire burning near the border turned into an even scarier scene. Nevadan KateLynn Hewlett snapped a photo showing the tornado striking through the Loyalton Fire.
A “mind-control” fungus found in cicadas forces males to mimic female mating behavior and spread infection and has been seen in populations across the U.S.
New to the United States, rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus, or RHDV2, is extremely contagious and could devastate wild rabbit populations without intervention.
