The change by Nevada State Engineer Jason King effectively grandfathers in certain property owners who can show they had applied prior his Dec. 19 order banning new domestic groundwater wells in Nye County’s largest town.
Science and Technology
The European Union fined Google a record $5 billion Wednesday for forcing cellphone makers that use the company’s hugely popular Android operating system to install Google apps.
Astronomers are still finding moons at Jupiter, 400 years after Galileo used his spyglass to spot the first ones.
A Dutch company that presented the world’s first lab-grown beef burger five years ago said Tuesday it has received funding to pursue its plans to make and sell artificially grown meat to restaurants from 2021.
Twitter suspended at least 58 million user accounts in the final three months of 2017, according to data obtained by The Associated Press.
At the Las Vegas Natural History Museum, UNLV researchers are slowly adding to their understanding of the mammoth, which died standing up roughly 20,000 years ago near the Nye County community of Amargosa Valley.
Residents in Flint whose homes still may need new water lines due to lead contamination may have a new benefactor in Elon Musk.
Dead trees still mark the path of one of the largest wildfires to strike Spring Mountains National Recreation Area. But bushes and shrubs also are starting to color the almost 19,000 acres of federal land that remain closed to the public.
The Division of Forestry issued a pest alert for the white satin moth last summer after mapping almost 200 acres of medium to heavy defoliation within Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park.
President Donald Trump says he has accepted the resignation of beleaguered Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt.
Hey, did my congressman really say that? Is that really President Donald Trump on that video, or am I being duped?
A SpaceX rocket that flew just two months ago with a NASA satellite roared back into action Friday, launching the first orbiting robot with artificial intelligence and other station supplies.
The National Atomic Testing Museum will host an Asteroid Day lecture on the explosion that many scientists believe rocked the area roughly 382 million years ago and left a crater up to 93 miles wide.
The State Environmental Commission voted Wednesday to add “renewable energy development and storage” to the list of acceptable post-production uses for shuttered mines to encourage developers to use the already-disturbed land.
A Japanese space probe arrived at an asteroid Wednesday after a 3½-year journey to undertake a first-ever experiment: blow a crater in the rocky surface to collect samples and bring them back to Earth.
