East Coast fishermen around New Bedford, Massachusetts, dread the possibility of navigating a forest of wind turbines as they make their way to the fishing grounds that have made it the nation’s most lucrative fishing port for 17 years running.
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The Virtual Dementia Tour, which has trained people at thousands of facilities across the United States, aims to increase empathy for dementia patients by showing them what it feels to walk in their shoes — their painful, destabilizing shoes.
At age 11, the boy noticed what he thought was a pimple growing on the side of his nose. But it wouldn’t stop growing. Now it weighs 10 pounds and is the size of his head.
A secret government program that investigated UFO sightings, stored objects of unknown origin in a Las Vegas warehouse and survived for at least five years with shadowy funding secured by Harry Reid?
Toshiba Corp.’s energy systems unit on Friday unveiled a long telescopic pipe carrying a pan-tilt camera designed to gather crucial information about the situation inside the reactor chambers at Japan’s tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant.
Even as President Donald Trump signed a directive this month to put boots back on the moon, a team of NASA researchers continued work on a quiet project to send an unmanned rover there.
The unprecedented order issued this week by State Engineer Jason King prohibits new domestic wells anywhere in the Pahrump Valley unless property owners first purchase existing water rights.
Apple has been intentionally slowing down older iPhones, and some of its users aren’t happy about it. The company faced a backlash over revelations that it has throttled the performance of older phones this week, with some not buying the company’s explanation and others complaining about the lack of transparency.
Now that federal telecom regulators have repealed net neutrality, it may be time to brace for the arrival of internet “fast lanes” and “slow lanes.”
The embryo was frozen on Oct. 14, 1992, when Gibson was about 18 months old, and was thawed on March 13, 2017, by embryology lab director Carol Sommerfelt, making it 24 years old, NEDC officials said in a news release posted to Standard Newswire Tuesday.
A 76-year-old thrill-seeker from Parkland, Washington, is headed to Nevada next year in hopes of breaking the world land-speed record — and the sound barrier — in a car built from the husk of an old fighter jet.
President Donald Trump’s administration is publicly blaming North Korea for a ransomware attack that infected hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide in May and crippled parts of Britain’s National Health Service.
For most of his 18-year career as a U.S Navy pilot, Cmdr. David Fravor said his mother-in-law used to ask him a question: had he seen a UFO? For 15 years, the answer was no. But one clear afternoon off the coast of California in 2004, he says, that changed.
Hyperloop One, the company behind an experimental mode of travel, announced a new speed milestone at its test track near North Las Vegas.
Las Vegas’ busiest day for some cyber attackers appears to have been Dec. 1, according to data recently released by Florida-based Enigma Software Group.
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