Santa Maria News

Three different teams took home a total $750,000 in prize money by using homemade robots to excavate simulated lunar dirt...Centennial Challenges program , which offers cash prizes for technological feats in order to spur interest and development in space technology....

An investigative series I've been writing about organized cyber crime gangs stealing millions of dollars from small to mid-sized businesses has generated more than a few responses from business owners who were concerned about how best to protect themselves from...

It�s been a couple of years since Gunnar Jespersen got in the face of Kris Dutra, saying he was coming to play for the Allan Hancock College football coach whether Dutra liked it or not. The truth is that the...

Ode to Rome, a city of passionate pilgrimage... and roses A new film bringing the life of John Keats to the big screen prompts a personal Romantic pilgrimage to Rome Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw as Fanny Brawne and John...

Calf with 6 feet born in Davao Sur 11/19/2009 12:59 PM Freak of nature, or good luck charm? These were the contrasting views surrounding a calf with six feet, which was born in a farm in Santa Maria town in...

The "millennium bug" was supposed to destroy computers and everything stored digitally, resulting in apocalyptic ruin that would destroy our infrastructure, our economy and our faith in progress. Bug or not, society has shown itself to be adequate at accomplishing...

Building in Barcelona must be an elephant trap for any ambitious architect. This is Antoni Gaudi's turf – no other city is so readily associated with a single architect. Which leaves today's practitioners with an invidious choice – do you...