“The internet has become a necessity in today’s society, and no Nevadan should be without access, regardless of where they live,” U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto said during a speech to the joint session of the Nevada Legislature Thursday night.
Science and Technology
“Screw Nevada Two.” That’s how Nevada’s chief critic of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project views legislation that will be discussed next week in a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee titled the “Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 2017.”
It may not be quite like the Jetsons, but for over a million dollars you too can soon fly around in a car.
University officials plan to seek federal funds to tear down or decontaminate the building, where research was conducted in the 1920s on separating radium from ore.
Global Wildlife Conservation, a Texas-based organization, is launching a global search for what it calls the top 25 “most wanted” animals (and one plant). None is officially extinct. But, collectively, the species have not been seen in more than 1,500 years.
An asteroid more than a quarter mile wide will pass close to Earth on Wednesday, zooming by at a distance of just over a million miles, but with no chance of impact, according to NASA scientists.
State wildlife officials to test carcass recovered at one of the ponds at Veterans Memorial Park to confirm whether it is in fact the flesh-eating predator from South America.
It takes a great deal of infrastructure, energy and engineering to get drinking and bathing water through 6,500 miles of pipelines and dozens of reservoirs to the farthest reaches of the Las Vegas Valley’s water system.
A seven-member, self-funded team consisting of four siblings won the international X Prize tricorder consumer medical competition — yes, inspired by the “Star Trek” gizmo — besting 312 entrants from 38 countries, many with corporate and government backing.
The abandoned subdivision off the side of U.S. Highway 95 is tucked out of view, but there isn’t much to see anyway — just some house-less streets next to a mile-long airstrip. But in time, if Jonathan Daniels has his way, the property will be buzzing with drones.
When Rachel Warbelow attended her first web- and software-development class, she stood out.
Amazon is introducing new tools to help parents see what their kids are doing on the company’s Fire tablets. As a bonus, the e-commerce giant says its service will also help spark discussions about the books kids read and the videos they watch.
Toyota is introducing a wearable robotic leg brace designed to help partially paralyzed people walk.
The Pentagon has announced that Nevada will become home to a nearly 20-year project regarding unmanned aircraft and the U.S. Air Force.
The Department of Energy’s Yucca Mountain program was defunded and dismantled under President Barack Obama, leaving only a handful of scientists from the hundreds who once worked on the project.