EU fisheries ministers wound up a tough 48 hours of talks on sustainable fishing with a Thursday breakfast "compromise" on the vexed issue of 2013 quotas.

Biology - Ecology

Dec 20, 2012 not rated yet 1

Companies have been very slow in recruiting more women board directors; but according to an EU report the period between October 2010 and January 2012 has seen the best progress in improving the gender balance ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Dec 18, 2012 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—Electronic circuits are typically integrated in rigid silicon wafers, but flexibility opens up a wide range of applications. In a world where electronics are becoming more pervasive, flexibility ...

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

Nov 26, 2012 4.9 / 5 (9) 1 |

Climate model projections showing a greater rise in global temperature are likely to prove more accurate than those showing a lesser rise, according to a new analysis by scientists at the National Center ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Nov 08, 2012 3.6 / 5 (21) 28 |

Sexual harassment is devastating in and of itself for its victims, but new research shows there can be an even more insidious and troubling consequence that goes along with it.

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Nov 05, 2012 4.5 / 5 (2) 1

Samsung Electronics today announced its new lineup of high-performance SSDs designed for use in personal computers. The new series supporting SATA 6.0 gigabit-per-second (Gb/s) interface comes in two tracks; ...

Electronics - Hardware

Sep 25, 2012 3.3 / 5 (4) 3

NVIDIA today introduced two new high-performance GPUs, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 and GeForce GTX 650. These new gaming GPUs deliver the exceptional performance and power efficiency of the award-winning NVIDIA Kepler architecture ...

Electronics - Hardware

Sep 14, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

European greenhouse gas emissions fell by 2.5 percent in 2011 over 2010, as a mild winter and increase in renewable energy use offset a rise in coal consumption and economic activity, estimates released on ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Sep 07, 2012 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org) -- The American West has a drinking problem. On farms and in cities, we are guzzling water at an alarming rate.

Space & Earth - Environment

May 09, 2012 4 / 5 (7) 8

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have built a quantum simulator that can engineer interactions among hundreds of quantum bits (qubits) -- 10 times more than previous devices. ...

Physics - Quantum Physics

Apr 25, 2012 4.5 / 5 (4) 6 |

Intel Corporation and Micron Technology, Inc., today announced a new benchmark in NAND flash technology - the world's first 20 nanometer (nm), 128 gigabit (Gb), multilevel-cell (MLC) device. The companies ...

Electronics - Hardware

Dec 07, 2011 4.4 / 5 (7) 2

US shoppers were on pace to drive "Cyber Monday" sales to a new record high as people flocked the Internet to snap up deals offered by online retailers.

Technology - Business

Nov 29, 2011 not rated yet 0

Imec announces that it has successfully fabricated implant-free quantum-well (IF-QW) pFETs with an embedded silicon-germanium (SiGe) source/drain. These devices show an excellent short channel control and a record logic performance. ...

Technology - Semiconductors

Jul 12, 2011 3 / 5 (1) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Not content to rest on their laurels, a team of data center researchers from the Center for Networked Systems (CNS) at the University of California, San Diego recently broke two of their own ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Jun 21, 2011 4.2 / 5 (5) 1 |

Foxconn International, the world's biggest contract electronics supplier, has lost its blue-chip status after being dropped from Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index (HSI), an HSI official said Wednesday.

Technology - Business

Jun 08, 2011 not rated yet 0