Every day at 4 a.m. and 4 p.m., a National Weather Service staffer in Las Vegas office launches a weather balloon into the sky, providing a vertical snapshot of the atmosphere that meteorologists can’t get from instruments on the ground.
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Lyft passengers now have the option of hailing a self-driving car for a trip to the Las Vegas Strip or other high-demand locations.
Twitter is advising all users to change their passwords.
When NASA astronaut Joseph Acaba was out doing a spacewalk during a recent trip to the International Space Station, he held on tight. That’s because Acaba is afraid of heights.
The Interior Department released revised planning documents Wednesday formalizing the Trump administration’s push to relax protections for the greater sage grouse in Nevada and 10 other states.
Reasearchers announced Wednesday that the Kilopower fission reactor performed better than expected during a 28-hour, full-power test completed on March 21 inside a vacuum chamber at the Nevada National Security Site.
Six years after last landing on Mars, NASA is sending a robotic geologist to dig deeper than ever before to take the planet’s temperature.
Facebook doesn’t think hookups are meaningful and doesn’t want you to date your friends — but it’s known for a long time that its vast map of human connections could help people find long-term partners. At least that’s the takeaway from a new dating feature the social networking giant is launching because, well, why not?
On Sunday, the U.S. government will open nationwide enrollment to 1 million people for an ambitious experiment.
Facebook is adding a “sleep” mode to its Messenger Kids service to let parents limit when their kids can use it.
The European Space Agency has released the first image taken by its Trace Gas Orbiter showing the ice-covered edge of a vast Martian crater.
Las Vegas Science and Technology Festival, featuring 45 events over nine days, is proving a hot ticket in its eighth year.
A new poll shows that 7 out of 10 of online adults who’ve heard of the scandal — revelations that a data mining firm might have accessed the private information of some 87 million Facebook users to influence elections — have unfollowed accounts, deleted their profiles or made other changes in how they use social media.
At a specialized lab, UNLV researchers use microscopic volcano debris to solve prehistoric mysteries.
A Nevada business is one of 14 in the U.S. to receive approval to operate drones for commercial use further than ever before.
