Foes in the 35-year-old debate over the safety of the proposed repository for the nation’s high-level radioactive waste, stake out staked out familiar positions Wednesday in a panel discussion at a radioactive waste conference in Las Vegas.
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Last year’s InterDrone introduced the idea of using drones for commercial applications. This year, InterDrone’s third-ever conference is all about how the public sector and different industries are doing just that.
North Korea says it successfully detonated a hydrogen bomb in its latest nuclear test Sunday. Outside experts haven’t been able to verify that claim, but say it’s plausible.
For its third annual conference, InterDrone won’t just have drones on the exhibition floor — they’ll be flying around outside, about 30 minutes away.
In 10 days, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will nose-dive into Saturn and burn up in the planet’s atmosphere.
Security guard Eric Leon watches the Knightscope K5 security robot as it glides through the mall, charming shoppers with its blinking blue and white lights.
But in ruling against lawsuit filed by local governments, tribes and environmental groups, federal judge orders Bureau of Land Management to develop plan to repair environmental damage caused by the $15 billion project.
So you looked directly at the sun while trying to watch the solar eclipse. Did you cause damage to your eyes? It’s hard to tell immediately, experts say.
After cutting back the speed of the Beijing to Shanghai bullet train following a deadly crash, China is set to again make it one of the world’s fastest.
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Andrew Ng has led teams at Google and Baidu that have gone on to create self-learning computer programs used by hundreds of millions of people, including email spam filters and touch-screen keyboards that make typing easier by predicting what you might want to say next.
Las Vegas largely lost out on getting a good peek the solar eclipse on Monday, but the viewing wasn’t a total bust.
Getting ready to watch the solar eclipse? Bring a sweater along with those special glasses because the mercury could dip as the moon’s shadow crosses the land.
Sure, Jim Gianoulakis could have stayed in Las Vegas, where the so-called “Great American Eclipse” will peak at about 10:27 a.m. with the moon covering about 72 percent of the sun. But there’s nothing quite like the other-worldly experience of momentary darkness in the middle of the day.
As of Thursday afternoon, the College of Southern Nevada Planetarium’s Astronomy Store was believed to be one of the last — if not the last — places in Las Vegas that hadn’t sold out of the specialized glasses.
The Southern Nevada Water Authority plans to spend up to $7.5 million in Mexico over the next 10 years in exchange for more Colorado River water.
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