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Elon Musk company working on device to link brain, computer

Tesla Inc. founder and chief executive Elon Musk said his latest company, Neuralink Corp., is working to link the human brain with a machine interface by creating micron-sized devices.

Science community ready to march on Washington, across US

The Science March, held on Earth Day, is expected to draw tens of thousands of people to the Mall, and satellite marches have been planned in more than 400 cities on six continents.

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Point man on Yucca Mountain calls new bill ‘Screw Nevada 2’

“Screw Nevada Two.” That’s how Nevada’s chief critic of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project views legislation that will be discussed next week in a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee titled the “Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 2017.”

UNR to move staff from building where radiation was found

University officials plan to seek federal funds to tear down or decontaminate the building, where research was conducted in the 1920s on separating radium from ore.

Scientists have glimmer of hope of finding 25 ‘lost’ species

Global Wildlife Conservation, a Texas-based organization, is launching a global search for what it calls the top 25 “most wanted” animals (and one plant). None is officially extinct. But, collectively, the species have not been seen in more than 1,500 years.

 
Large asteroid to pass near Earth on Wednesday

An asteroid more than a quarter mile wide will pass close to Earth on Wednesday, zooming by at a distance of just over a million miles, but with no chance of impact, according to NASA scientists.

 
Follow a gallon of water from Lake Mead to a Las Vegas tap

It takes a great deal of infrastructure, energy and engineering to get drinking and bathing water through 6,500 miles of pipelines and dozens of reservoirs to the farthest reaches of the Las Vegas Valley’s water system.

‘Star Trek’-inspired tricorder may help us live long, prosper

A seven-member, self-funded team consisting of four siblings won the international X Prize tricorder consumer medical competition — yes, inspired by the “Star Trek” gizmo — besting 312 entrants from 38 countries, many with corporate and government backing.

 
Once-abandoned Searchlight subdivision may soon be buzzing with drones

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.

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