Perchlorates, produced in Henderson from the 1950s to the 1990s, are best remembered for touching off a massive explosion at the PEPCON plant manufacturing in 1988.
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Should everyone be wearing a mask in public to curb the spread of the coronavirus? Turns out neither the science nor the guidance on masks is not clear-cut.
The accounts on Facebook and Instagram were tied to the Proud Boys and the American Guard, two hate groups already banned on those platforms.
Groundwater pumping is restricted for all communities in the area, besides the long-stalled Coyote Springs development, in efforts to protect the Moapa dace.
The Federal Communications Commission said John Spiller and Jakob Mears made the calls through two businesses.
IBM’s decision to stop building and selling facial recognition software is unlikely to affect its bottom line.
The Review-Journal is adding two science reporters as part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2020 media fellowships.
The drug did not seem to cause serious harm, though — about 40% on it had side effects, mostly mild stomach problems.
It was the first time a privately built and owned spacecraft carried astronauts to the orbiting lab in its nearly 20 years.
Institute scientists are gathering data on the pandemic, as well as people’s reactions to and perceptions of COVID-19.
The nuclear reactor vessel from the San Onofre nuclear plant, which will be the largest and heaviest object ever moved on a Nevada road, is heading for Las Vegas by rail.
The inaugural launch had appeared to be going well until moments after the rocket was dropped from beneath the left wing of the jumbo jet dubbed Cosmic Girl.
NASA test pilots Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken flew to Florida from Houston aboard one of the space agency’s jets.
Facebook and Google, which owns YouTube, have already put similar systems in place.
Astronomers theorize there are between 100 million to 1 billion of these small but dense objects in the Milky Way.