Mojave National Preserve officials are continuing their efforts to protect endangered desert tortoises from vehicles with the installation of dozens of miles of roadside "tortoise fencing" in tortoise ...

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The Darpa Grand Challenge—not since the fabled transcontinental races of a century ago have so many engineers, professors, students, corporate teams, and garage tinkerers been drawn to so daunting a ...

It’s been a long time coming, but finally, this year’s edition of the Mint 400 kicked off on December 1 in Las Vegas, with a mammoth parade that signals the start of several days of motoring insanity.

Winter in the desert is a peculiar thing. Absent is the overwhelming force that sculpted everything you see: Bleached signs, cracked paneling, squat buildings that seem beaten down by a scorching ...