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| Apr.12 |
SF Zoo |
Baby giraffe at Zoo only 4 days old, already 6 feet tall
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| Sep.29 |
Stanford |
Stanford, Berkeley researchers win MacArthur 'genius grants' |
| May.13 |
Bay |
Trio of humpback whales spotted in San Francisco Bay |
| Apr.30 |
SF Marina |
Sea lion captured wandered onto streets
The Marine Mammal Center has safely captured a male sea lion. A tourist spotted the lion sitting under an SUV around 6:30 Thursday morning
| Apr.15 |
Pacifica |
Crowds gathered in Pacifica to witness whale |
| Feb.20 |
Google |
Eric Schmidt and wife give $10M to Monterey Bay Aquarium |
| Jan.28 |
Berkeley |
Charles H. Townes, renowned physicist and Nobel laureate, dies The inventor of the laser that ultimately led to bar codes in supermarkets and tools to help surgeons in the most delicate operations was 99
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| Nov.19 |
San Jose |
Plant turning wastewater into drinking water
| Oct.8 |
Stanford |
Moerner, professor at Stanford, shares Nobel in Chemistry William Moerner won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing new methods that let microscopes see finer details than they could before | |
| Oct.1 |
Stanford |
Renowned physicist, Nobel laureate Martin Perl dies
| Jun.27 |
Fishermans Wharf |
Sea lion disappear from Fisherman's Wharf
The buzz of marine life - represented for two decades by the loud barks of hundreds of sea lions and the oohs and aahs of tourists - was abs...
| Jun.26 |
Menlo Park |
Crews fight fire at Stanford linear accelerator |
| May.7 |
SF Zoo |
SF Zoo officials reveal new red panda's name |
| May.6 |
Western Marin County |
Rescued sea lions returned to ocean at Chimney Rock |
| May.1 |
SF Zoo |
San Francisco Zoo welcomes 10-month-old red panda The red panda has arrived along with a new enclosure and a custom-made treehouse made by Pete Nelson and his crew from Animal Planet's hit s...
| Jan.27 |
Campbell |
Beavers, salmon returning to Los Gatos creek |
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| Dec.14 |
Bay |
Sightings of river otters in SF Bay suggest comeback |
| Nov.22 |
SF Sunset |
Celebrity in science visits Lincoln High |
| Oct.27 |
Oakland Downtown |
River otter spotted at Oakland's Lake Merritt
| Oct.9 |
Stanford |
Stanford professor wins Nobel Prize in chemistry Michael Levitt is a professor and chair of Department of Structural Biology. He shares the prize with professors from USC and Harvard | |
| Aug.15 |
SF Downtown |
Exploratorium cuts 18% of staff as attendance lags |
| Jul.28 |
Burlingame |
Burlingame hotel welcomes 2nd set of nesting owls |
| Jul.27 |
SF Zoo |
Penguin chicks graduate from fish school at SF Zoo
| Jun.4 |
Novato |
Ranger helps distressed bald eagle in Marin Co. |
| May.1 |
San Jose |
IBM researchers create world's smallest movie
| Apr.23 |
San Jose City Hall |
City Hall baby falcons are three boys |
| Apr.17 |
SF Downtown |
Exploratorium Moves to San Francisco's Embarcadero
Map of Pier 15 San Francisco The new Exploratorium is opening at Pier 15 at the heart of the city's waterfront with three times more space for hands-on, interactive exhibits | |
| Feb.6 |
Emeryville |
Bomb threat cleared at Lawrence Berkeley office |
| Jan.21 |
SF Marina |
School for boys to lease Exploratorium
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| Oct.11 |
East Oakland |
Oakland Zoo Veterinary Hospital opens
| Oct.10 |
Stanford |
Nobel Prize for Stanford prof Brian Kobilka, 57, won the Prize in Chemistry for his research into protein receptors that let body cells sense and respond to outside signals | |
| Oct.9 |
UC Berkeley |
UC Berkeley grad shares Nobel in Physics
| Mar.7 |
SF Presidio |
Gray whale spotted near Crissy Field
Map of Crissy Field San Francisco A gray whale has been spotted in the San Francisco Bay near Crissy Field Wednesday,
| Feb.1 |
Oakland |
Baby giraffe 'Maggie' born at Oakland Zoo |
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| Dec.6 |
Golden Gate Park |
7 baby bison to join herd at GG Park
| Oct.3 |
Marin County |
Sea lion being treated for gunshot wound
| Sep.19 |
Bay |
Scientists say SF Bay is healthier
| Aug.31 |
Vallejo |
Six Flags theme park has new giraffe
| Aug.20 |
SF Bayview |
Rare bird, chicks spotted in SF park
| May.5 |
Golden Gate Park |
Snakes coming to Academy of Sciences
| May.3 |
SF Zoo |
SF Zoo adopts tiger from Nebraska
| Mar.18 |
UC Berkeley |
Harmless traces of radiation detected Nuclear engineers have detected traces of radiation on their monitors. They have said that the tiny particles pose no threat at all
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Petaluma |
San Pablo wildlife refuge to expand
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| Apr.20 |
Bay |
Dead Gray Whale Spotted In SF Bay
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| Oct.8 |
Mountain View |
Scientist Shares Nobel In Physics Charles K. Kao, a Shanghai-born Mountain View resident helped link the world through fiber-optic networks. He suffers from Alzheimer's disease
| Jul.31 |
SF Bayview |
Climate Center Eyed At Polluted Shipyard
| Apr.6 |
San Francisco |
Program helps kids find carbon impact |
| Jan.22 |
Berkeley |
New Lab Director To Replace Steven Chu |
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| Sep.27 |
Golden Gate Park |
Academy Of Sciences Reopening Thousands of visitors attended the much-anticipated reopening of California Academy of Sciences, some waiting in line as early as 5:30 a
| Sep.21 |
Golden Gate Park |
New Calif. Academy of Sciences opens The Academy reopened to the public after more than 10 years of planning and construction. The new $488 million building substitutes the old facility
The old building was seriously damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake
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| Jun.7 |
Moffett Field |
NASA Ames Work On Quake Warning |
| Jun.3 |
East Bay |
Lake Boats May Be Checked For Mussels |
| Feb.2 |
Oakland |
Giraffe's jacket makes for comfort |
| Jan.23 |
San Francisco |
Rescued bird is magnificent frigatebird |
| Jan.21 |
Hayward |
Hayward Fault Due For Major Quake |
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| Jul.11 |
Oakland |
Scientists find dangerous chemicals in bay |
| May.18 |
Berkeley |
Scwarzenegger Touts Alternative Fuels |
| Apr.20 |
UC Berkeley |
BP Deal Questioned By Some Faculty The faculty debated academic freedom and the role of corporations on campus as $500 million energy partnership generated plenty of heat
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| Nov.29 |
Los Altos Hills |
African bird in orchard 9K miles from home |
| Oct.27 |
Livermore Lab |
3 teams vie to manage nuclear research |
| Oct.17 |
Mountain View |
Quake Maps Reveal New Danger Zones |
| Oct.4 |
UC Berkeley |
Prof. & Grad Share Nobel Physics Prize George F. Smoot and NASA's John C. Mather won the prize for work that helped cement the big-bang theory
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Stanford |
Professor Wins Nobel Prize In Chemistry Roger D. Kornberg, whose father won a Nobel Prize, was awarded for studies of how cells take information from genes
| Apr.6 |
SF Downtown |
Webcam Views Falcons In High Rise |
| Mar.28 |
San Francisco |
1906 Quake Simulation Unveiled Scientists with USGS, Livermore lab and Stanford unveiled several simulations recreating the 1906 earthquake
| Mar.22 |
San Jose |
Simulator Imitates 8.0 Quake Scenario |
| Feb.25 |
San Francisco |
New Maps Pinpoint Quake Risks A new map shows that the land alongside rivers and streams is more dangerous
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| Dec.19 |
SF Zoo |
New Female Tiger |
| Jul.12 |
San Jose |
Bones Found In River Prehistoric A set of fossilized bones found in the mud in the Guadalupe River could be thousands of years old
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| Nov.17 |
SF Zoo |
Grizzly Bears Debut
| May.7 |
SF Zoo |
First-ever gorilla lung surgery |
| Mar.7 |
SF Zoo |
37-year-old elephant euthanized Staff veterinarians euthanized a female Asian elephant named Calle because of her deteriorating health
| Mar.5 |
SF Zoo |
38-year-old elephant to be euthanized |
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| Nov.18 |
Golden Gate Park |
Oldest captive fish in country turn 65 |
| Jul.21 |
SF Sunset |
Dead whale attracted large crowds Scientists tried to preserve the rarely seen mammal's skull and a fin
| May.1 |
San Jose |
Explosions to Help Map Earthquake Faults |
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| Dec.10 |
Stanford |
Human embryonic stem cell project University announced its intention to develop human embryonic stem cells through nuclear transfer technology
| Nov.6 |
San Pablo |
Woman, 113, named oldest American |
| Aug.28 |
Golden Gate Bridge |
Tall Ships Sail Into Bay |
| Aug.8 |
Intel |
Grove donates $5m to stem cell program
| Jul.30 |
Sausalito |
Discovery Museum $18 million expansion
| Jul.27 |
UC Berkeley |
Tiny flying robots to aid war, exploration
| Jul.22 |
Berkeley |
Lab accused of moving radioactives
| Jul.13 |
Berkeley |
Fraudulent research
| Jun.4 |
Livermore Lab |
Anastasio promote to head laboratory
| Apr.24 |
Richmond |
State DNA laboratory opened
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| Dec.8 |
Livermore Lab |
Top scientist to resign |
| Aug.30 |
Oakland |
African elephant born at Zoo After a 22-month gestation period and 5 hours of labor, Lisa gave birth to 320-pound African elephant