Researchers create glass as strong as steel

01/12, 4:30pm

California researchers make ultra-strong glass

A team of researchers from the Berkeley Lab and Caltech has developed glass that is tougher than steel, and not as brittle as traditional glass. This new metallic glass contains palladium that exhibits a high bulk-to-shear ratio. It thus bends rather than cracks, and sometimes goes beyond the fracture limits of some of the world's strongest materials.

Apple planning a store in Berkeley?

10/15, 10:40pm

Area was on the list of original sites in 2000

Apple is in negotiations to open a new store in Berkeley, across the bay from the existing three San Francisco Apple Stores, ifoAppleStore reports. The space, a former furniture store at 1823 Fourth Street in the college town, is in an area that was on Apple's original list in 2000 of sites for the first set of Apple retail stores.