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.
Science and Technology
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.
Las Vegas’ burgeoning information technology sector is allowing the local startup scene to flourish, according to a recent report.
An “unlikely” string of events prompted Amazon’s Echo personal assistant device to record a Portland, Oregon, family’s private conversation and then send the recording to an acquaintance in Seattle, the company said Thursday.
The International Space Station accepted delivery Thursday of more than 7,000 pounds of supplies from Virginia.
On the heels of a contract to create a Netflix documentary series, former President Barack Obama joked about life outside the White House and said he wants his new project to unite people from all walks of life.
Mary Kay Duda, 75, hit a streak of bad luck when doctors found a large tumor growing on her pancreas. But she also got a few lucky breaks and beat the often deadly disease by undergoing a risky surgery called the “Whipple procedure.”