You know those snacks that are OK if they’re handy, but not worth the bother if you have to go track them down? Our Stone Age forerunners may have felt the same way about eating each other.
Science and Technology
Shot of Comet Hale-Bopp hurtling through the evening sky over Red Rock Canyon at 43,000 mph ran in the Las Vegas Review-Journal and later was sold as a poster at the park’s visitor center.
Faraday Future spokesmen say the company is working as fast as they can in Gardena, California, to bring the first autonomous electric vehicle to production in North Las Vegas, where it’s a starkly different scene of mostly stagnant dirt.
A longtime UNLV geology professor is leading a team of volunteers in the excavation of an adult fossilized Columbian mammoth at a remote, undisclosed site on federal land.
Spacewalking astronauts lost an important piece of cloth shielding needed for the International Space Station on Thursday when it floated away.
A major update to Microsoft’s Windows 10 system will start reaching consumers and businesses on April 11, offering 3-D drawing tools, game-broadcasting capabilities and better ways to manage your web browsing.
Samsung seems to be playing it safe with its first major smartphone since the embarrassing recall of its fire-prone Note 7.
The world’s spiders consume somewhere between 400 million and 800 million tons of prey a year. That means that spiders eat at least as much meat as all 7 billion humans on the planet.
The National Park Service is seeking help from the public to solve the recent theft of fossilized animal tracks from Death Valley National Park.
Nevada Department of Wildlife biologists discover the containers once used to ship weapons of war are ideal breeding grounds for fish that lives only in a few remaining pools in northern Clark County.
Samsung’s fire-prone Galaxy Note 7 phone might come back as refurbished or rental phones.
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.
Biologists from the Nevada Department of Wildlife try “flow conditioning” in bid to help endangered razorback suckers and bonytail chubs survive in the wild.
There’s a plaster cast of a footprint on the wall of Scott Violette’s basement and it’s the sort of thing that could give a kid nightmares for weeks.
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.