For the first time in decades, a river otter has made San Francisco its home, taking up residence in the ruins of a 19th Century seaside bath near the Golden Gate Bridge.

Biology - Ecology

Jan 03, 2013 3.3 / 5 (3) 1

Skeletal remains in an island cave in Favignana, Italy, reveal that modern humans first settled in Sicily around the time of the last ice age and despite living on Mediterranean islands, ate little seafood. The research is ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Nov 28, 2012 4.3 / 5 (3) 0

The new PAMBuoy acoustic monitoring system officially launched last month by SMRU Ltd, the spin out from the Sea Mammal Research Unit at University of St Andrews, is being used to protect salmon in the River Forth estuary ...

Technology - Engineering

Nov 27, 2012 not rated yet 0

University of Granada researchers have developed a revolutionary data storage device in collaboration with the CEA-LETI lab at Grenoble (France), an institution of the Campus of International Excellence CEI ...

Technology - Semiconductors

Nov 26, 2012 2 / 5 (5) 3

(Phys.org)—Intel will introduce two NUC barebone computer models for the general public by next month. These are tiny barebone PCs that will be available through online retailers. One of the two models, ...

Electronics - Hardware

Nov 11, 2012 2.5 / 5 (4) 12 |

A team of BYU engineers has found that by listening to how a highway bridge sings in the rain they can determine serious flaws in the structure.

Technology - Engineering

Oct 22, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

(Phys.org)—How much weight can a bridge made of balsa wood carry? When encased in a layer of fiber-reinforced resin, much more than you would expect, say engineers from EPFL. On October 12th, a composite ...

Technology - Engineering

Oct 19, 2012 4.3 / 5 (6) 0 |

Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited today announced the development of Interface Bridge SoC "MB86E631," which brings together a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor and a host of different interfaces, all on a single ...

Technology - Semiconductors

Oct 16, 2012 not rated yet 0

(AP)—Space shuttle Endeavour rocketed beyond Earth orbit 25 times. Its 26th mission: a 12-mile (19-kilometer) commute through the streets of Los Angeles to its new retirement home in a museum.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Sep 22, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 2

Space shuttle Endeavour landed safely at the Los Angeles International Airport Friday after a whirlwind aerial tour around California landmarks.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Sep 21, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

(AP)—Space shuttle Endeavour will spend its last flying day Friday not rocketing into space but doing what most tourists do when visiting California: Taking in the state Capitol, Golden Gate Bridge and ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Sep 21, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org)—Intel's new breed of Ultrabooks will be lighter, thinner but loaded with new features and functions that end users will either see as bloat or muscle, and Intel is counting on the latter. The ...

Electronics - Hardware

Sep 12, 2012 3.5 / 5 (4) 5 |

(Phys.org)—Can Intel possibly reduce the energy consumption of its processors by 41 percent? Intel is working on it and the result will be Haswell, its next generation of processors, and the key topic of ...

Electronics - Hardware

Sep 07, 2012 4.5 / 5 (11) 12 |

(Phys.org)—When placed inside a material, optical fibers act like artificial nerves, transmitting valuable information about a structure's state of fatigue and wear. A new technique developed at EPFL makes ...

Physics - Optics & Photonics

Aug 29, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 0 |

All children who build sandcastles on the beach know that in addition to sand you also need to add a little water to prevent the structure from collapsing. But why is this? In an article which appeared today in Scientific Re ...

Physics - Soft Matter

Aug 02, 2012 3.8 / 5 (4) 2