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.
Science and Technology
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.
NASA will give Earth dwellers the first live-streaming look at 4K Ultra HD video from space during a session at the 2017 NAB Show on April 26 in Las Vegas.
Nevada is getting closer to taking its battle against cyberattacks to a new level.
A Canadian technology company is hoping a small device — about the size of a wireless router — will revolutionize how the security industry can detect and warn of possible terrorism threats.
The flag-draped casket of John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, was covered in plastic to protect it from a steady rain as it was carried on a horse-drawn caisson to his final resting place at Arlington National Cemetery. Later, his widow, Annie, gave a kiss on the cheek to the Marine who presented her with the folded-up flag.
You know those snacks that are OK if they’re handy, but not worth the bother if you have to go track them down? Our Stone Age forerunners may have felt the same way about eating each other.
Shot of Comet Hale-Bopp hurtling through the evening sky over Red Rock Canyon at 43,000 mph ran in the Las Vegas Review-Journal and later was sold as a poster at the park’s visitor center.
Faraday Future spokesmen say the company is working as fast as they can in Gardena, California, to bring the first autonomous electric vehicle to production in North Las Vegas, where it’s a starkly different scene of mostly stagnant dirt.
A longtime UNLV geology professor is leading a team of volunteers in the excavation of an adult fossilized Columbian mammoth at a remote, undisclosed site on federal land.
Spacewalking astronauts lost an important piece of cloth shielding needed for the International Space Station on Thursday when it floated away.