Most of us are familiar with neon as a term for bright colors and vibrant signs, but you may not know as much about the element underlying the name, which scientists were first able to isolate ...

The Bighorn sheep, sagebrush, and casino chips. Those are just three things of 22 symbols that you may associate with Nevada. Recently, there was a new addition to that list which some locals either ...

CARSON CITY — Few things are as synonymous with Las Vegas and the Silver State as neon. For nearly a century, the noble gas has helped light up some of the most iconic signs across Nevada — like the ...

The gas that makes Las Vegas shine is one of the nobles — the noble gases, that is. Neon is one of six elements, found in the rightmost column of the Periodic Table, that are inert. Noble gases react ...

Like everyplace else, Nevada has named a number of things as official state symbols. There’s Lahontan cutthroat trout, sagebrush and desert tortoise (the state fish, flower and reptile, respectively), ...