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The San Francisco Bay Area yesterday became the first region in California to pass regulations governing development in areas prone to sea-level rise.

The San Francisco Bay Area yesterday became the first region in California to pass regulations governing development in areas prone to sea-level rise. The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) voted unanimously to pass a development plan for land within 100 feet of the coastline, giving the agency a tool to deny permits for development in coastal areas susceptible to flooding.

Federal prosecutors launch crackdown on pot dispensaries in California

Biologist Elizabeth Blackburn grew up in Hobart on the Australian island of Tasmania.

What's the future of solar energy? Fast Company gets Crystal Ballin' with Lynn Jurich, cofounder of SunRun, which is flourishing in a season that has seen a few high-profile bankruptcies in solar energy. For the latest installment in our futurist series of interviews, Crystal Ballin' , we talk to Lynn Jurich, the 32-year-old cofounder of SunRun , which specializes in installing and operating solar panels on residential rooftops.

The University of California, Riverside has received a $1.85 million grant to develop a new way of computing that is beyond the scope of conventional silicon electronics.

Saul Perlmutter won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday, but it wasn't until the California scientist was awakened by a telephone call from a reporter in Sweden that he learned of the distinction.

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Apple To Make News Today . The Internet is gearing up for today's 1 PM EST Cupertino show, where Apple CEO Tim Cook is expected to get on stage and trot out some new hardware--and maybe

From lightbulbs to iPhones, tech has a history of being produced with planned obsolescence. And our children will never know the alternative. On Christmas Eve, 1924, a group of industrialists held a secret meeting in Geneva, Switzerland

FDA hasn't yet found source of outbreak tied to contaminated romaine lettuce from California farm

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's first x-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), first unveiled in 2009 at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in Palo Alto California, has been undergoing testing by group of physicists determined to find out how many of the photons it emits are synchronized and have found, as they describe in their paper in Physical Review Letters, the x-ray radiation that it produces, is the most coherent ever measured.

The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to Bruce Beutler at the Scripps Research Institute in California, Jules Hoffmann at the French National Center for Scientific Research and Ralph Steinman at Rockefeller University in New York City. Beutler and Hoffman helped to elucidate innate immunity. That’s the non-specific array of initial responses by the body’s immune system that can recognize invading microorganisms as being foreign and try to destroy them

The average pro football career lasts three and a half seasons.

Inside the movement to make the coder community more female friendly.

As the climate shifts, many species will migrate to more favorable destinations, altering their natural range. However, researchers have found that the journey itself may be perilous and the path to a new habitat could fall apart, meaning some organisms may not make the transition to a new home. Scientists at Brown University studied 15 amphibian species in the Pacific Northwest, including the black-bellied slender salamander, the Santa Lucia Mountains slender salamander, the California red-legged frog and the California newt