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New Nevada butterfly rest area intended to be first in a network

Volunteers gathered on a ranch north of Beatty to plant flowering plants on 4 acres owned by the Nature Conservancy, part of a plan to help monarch butterflies complete their epic migrations.

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Uber suspends self-driving car program after crash in Arizona

Uber suspended its pilot program for driverless cars on Saturday after a vehicle equipped with the nascent technology crashed on an Arizona roadway, the ride-hailing company and local police said.

 
CIA hacked Apple devices in new Wikileaks revelation

New documents from WikiLeaks point to an apparent CIA program to hack Apple’s iPhones and Mac computers using techniques that users couldn’t disable by resetting their devices.

 
Trump signs bill authorizing Mars exploration, $19.5B in NASA funding

President Donald Trump signed a bill into law Tuesday that updates NASA’s mission to add exploration of Mars and authorizes $19.5 billion in spending for the U.S. space agency for the current budget year.

 
Vegas Stripped: A ‘dino nerd’ in the desert — VIDEO

UNLV professor Josh Bonde teaches paleontology and loves dinosaurs. “Paleontology is just being able to tell a story about a different world, but you don’t actually have to travel that far to be able to see the story.”

 
Moapa power plant ceases operations after 52 years

The Reid Gardner Generating Station has ended its operations. NV Energy will spend the rest of 2017 decommissioning the coal-fired power plant 50 miles northeast of Las Vegas.

 
Moapa power plant ceases operations after 52 years

After more than five decades, the Reid Gardner Generating Station has ended its operations. NV Energy will spend the rest of 2017 decommissioning the coal-fired power plant located 50 miles northeast of Las Vegas.

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