After a 90-day review of the Dixie Valley toad, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Tuesday that the rare amphibian warrants a more comprehensive 12-month study to determine if it should become Nevada’s newest listed species.
Science and Technology
The University of Nevada Cooperative Extension has built an oasis for monarch butterflies in Las Vegas
The Supreme Court ruled Friday that police generally need a search warrant if they want to track criminal suspects’ movements by collecting information about where they’ve used their cellphones.
Facebook’s Instagram app is loosening its restraints on video in an attempt to lure younger viewers away from YouTube.
Finding the light switch in hotels rooms may become a bit less aggravating.
If it lives up to Apple’s promise, the iPhone’s next operating system will automatically deliver quicker and more reliable information pinpointing the location of 911 calls to about 6,300 emergency response centers in the U.S.
One of the country’s premier nuclear weapons labs now has the capability to disable drones or any other unauthorized unmanned aircraft systems flying over its restricted airspace in a swath of northern New Mexico.
NASA’s seemingly unstoppable Mars rover Opportunity has been knocked out by a gigantic dust storm that is enveloping the red planet and blotting out the sun.
New Mars discoveries are advancing the case for possible life on the red planet, past or even present.
Microsoft says it’s paying $7.5 billion in stock for the popular coder hangout GitHub.
Patients with pancreatic cancer that hadn’t spread lived substantially longer on a four-drug combo than on a single standard cancer drug.
Peregrine falcons, nearly wiped out by the advent of DDT and similar pesticides in the 1950s, have rebounded in Southern Nevada to the point where they are at “carrying capacity,” according to birds of prey researcher Joe Barnes.
Recreation area’s YouTube video highlights the history, scenery and science that hikers encounter when they walk the Historic Railroad Trail, which traces the route built in 1931 to ferry material to the Hoover Dam construction site
Shoppers who send questions to Miracle Mile Shops on the Las Vegas Strip will receive answers from a computer program with a “witty, sassy and trendy personality.”
Nevada and California agencies are working together to advance drone use in emergency evacuations.
