A Las Vegas paleontologist is still studying the specimens to confirm that his suspicion is true — that the fossils are from the extinct Ice Age helmeted musk ox.
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He was in NASA’s fifth astronaut class, chosen in 1966, retired from NASA in 1975 and went to work for a few aerospace companies.
Sofia Ongele created ReDawn, an app that allows survivors of sexual assault to chat with an artificial intelligence-driven bot that can locate nearby help centers and create reports and ask questions.
The earthquakes that hammered the Southern California desert near the town of Ridgecrest last summer involved ruptures on a web of interconnected faults and increased strain on a major nearby fault that has begun to slowly move, according to a new study.
As hotel-casinos along the Las Vegas Strip work to broaden nongaming offerings, many are looking to excite guests with glimpses into the future.
William Corney was a communications engineer stationed in the middle of the Atlantic during the Apollo 11 mission 50 years ago, relaying messages to NASA’s Mission Control.
The top Senate Democrat is calling on the FBI to review a Russian company’s trendy smartphone app that transforms faces from photos into younger and older images of the person, according to a letter obtained by The Associated Press.
Las Vegas has the second hardest drinking water in the nation, according to new rankings from a group that sells water softeners.
Facebook already rules daily communication for more than 2 billion people around the world. Now it wants its own currency, too.
Apple has unveiled a new iPad that’s thinner and slightly larger than its current entry-level tablet.
Just four months after receiving tax abatements from the state, the site of a Google data center in Henderson is beginning to take shape.
A climate scientist who popularized the term “global warming” has died. Wallace Smith Broecker was 87.
If you don’t make time for anything else this weekend, make sure to set aside some time to go outside and catch the lunar eclipse.
Technology-driven smart cities are just over the horizon, and Gov. Brian Sandoval believes Nevada is positioned to be a leader in smart-city innovations.
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.