Federal safety regulators are investigating whether employees and visitors were exposed to unsafe levels of radiation at a Grand Canyon National Park research building where uranium ore samples apparently sat around for years in unmarked buckets.
Science and Technology
A climate scientist who popularized the term “global warming” has died. Wallace Smith Broecker was 87.
The Nature Conservancy closed on its latest acquisition Wednesday: a working, 900-acre cattle ranch at the headwaters of the Amargosa River that could one day become a living laboratory for the coexistence of conservation and commerce.
NASA’s Opportunity, the Mars rover that was built to operate just three months but kept going and going, was pronounced dead Wednesday, 15 years after it landed on the red planet.
Earth’s north magnetic pole has been drifting so fast in the last few decades that scientists say that past estimates are no longer accurate enough for precise navigation. On Monday, they released an update of where magnetic north really was, nearly a year ahead of schedule.
A new report estimates that nearly half of all U.S. adults have some form of heart or blood vessel disease, a medical milestone that’s mostly due to recent guidelines that expanded how many people have high blood pressure.
Apple has made the group chat function in FaceTime unavailable after users said there was a bug that could allow callers to activate another user’s microphone remotely.
Nevada lawmakers will look to avoid being roadblocks as southern Nevada further drives into the future of technology.
The space snowman visited by NASA on New Year’s Day is pitted all over and has a bright “collar” between its two fused spheres.
Japan-based All Nippon Airways has begun taking reservations for flights between Tokyo and Honolulu on an Airbus A380, the world’s largest passenger airliner.
NASA’s Opportunity rover is silently marking the 15th anniversary of its touchdown on Mars.
Aptiv’s fleet of 75 self-driving vehicles have been navigating their way around Las Vegas streets for the better part of the last year now and have been learning as they go.
If you don’t make time for anything else this weekend, make sure to set aside some time to go outside and catch the lunar eclipse.
Robots and more robots marked just one trend at CES. Now that the 2019 show has wrapped up until next year, a look at some of the other trends, products that grabbed attention this year.
While there was little doubt among attendees that 5G will revolutionize the world, when that revolution will actually dawn is disputed.
