The ashes of celebrated physicist Stephen Hawking will be interred at London’s Westminster Abbey near the grave of Isaac Newton.
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Despite worsening conditions in the mountains that feed the Colorado River, forecasters still expect the reservoir east of Las Vegas to contain just enough water by the end of the year to avoid a first-ever federal shortage declaration.
Facebook likes can tell a lot about a person. Maybe even enough to fuel a voter-manipulation effort like the one a Trump-affiliated data-mining firm stands accused of — and which Facebook may have enabled.
Swedish developer’s proposal to build as many as 220 wind turbines across 22 miles along the Nevada-California border near Searchlight comes less than a year after plans were dropped for a controversial wind farm in the same area. .
The Moapa dace population was tallied at 1,138 adult fish in the February count at its habitat in the warm springs and streams that form the headwaters of the Muddy River, 60 miles northeast of Las Vegas.
Stephen Hawking, whose brilliant mind ranged across time and space though his body was paralyzed by disease, has died, a family spokesman said.
Officials say more than 2,000 frozen eggs and embryos might have been damaged due to a refrigerator malfunction at an Ohio fertility clinic.
Winter at the top of the world wimped out this year. The Arctic just finished its warmest winter on record. And sea ice hit record lows for this time of year, with plenty of open water where ocean water normally freezes into thick sheets of ice, new U.S. weather data show.
The new Las Vegas Review-Journal app is available for download on Apple, Android and Amazon Fire devices.
An international network of amateur weather trackers is looking for observant — and patient — local residents to measure rainfall in America’s driest city.
Las Vegas is among the first four places where telecommunications company T-Mobile will sell cellphones equipped with the next generation of technology.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Monday that it is “delisting” the Eureka Valley evening-primrose and upgrading the status of Eureka dune grass from endangered to the less-imperiled threatened status.
A team of researchers has come up with an innovative way to determine exactly where the trees live and where they might live in the future, but it requires satellite observations and lots of boots on the ground.
SpaceX has postponed a satellite launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
The Philadelphia Zoo on Tuesday said that the 37-year-old bear, Coldilocks, was in declining health and was euthanized.