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Creativity solves museum's engineering challenges

When planning San Francisco's new California Academy of Sciences building in Golden Gate Park, engineers ran across a few design challenges that demanded clever solutions. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi explains how they borrowed ideas from other areas of engineering--from roller coasters to submarines--to solve those problems.

Tags: Creativity, News.com, San Francisco, Academy of Sciences, Kara Tsuboi, roller coasters, submarines

Videos 2008-01-18

Academy of Sciences' 5D design

With its undulating garden-topped roof, twin domes, and environmentally-friendly features, this $484 million project is one of a kind. Building it was understandably a challenge. News.com reporter, Kara Tsuboi, learns more about the "virtual building" program that took architect Renzo Piano's sketches and made them a reality.

Tags: Sketch, Academy of Sciences, architecture, virtual building, design

Videos 2007-12-17

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U.N.'s Ban Ki-moon warns of 'abyss" and 'widespread disaster'

Dear Mr Fuller you have to understand a few thing WEll even if i find your post always refreshing and deeply educating you must understand this until there hurrican lvl 6and 7 or twister force 6 or 7 or all coastal area will be under...

Tags: Ban Ki-moon

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

Geo-engineering drawing more and more attention

Now the Royal Society of the U.K. is looking at various geo-engineering schemes suggested for combatting global warming or its effects. As time passes and nothing significant is done in the political realm, global warming promises to become an exercise in triage. Thus macro-scale schemes to alter the...

Tags: Global Warming, Royal Society, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-02

Intel Summer Tech Day (or "Why couldn't I live in California?")

Despite our non-stop rain this summer, long winters, crippling ice storms, and plagues of mosquitoes and black flies, I really love New England. The people are pragmatic and would give you the shirts off their back at least once they get to know you and here in Massachusetts, clam...

Tags: Intel Classmate PC, PC, Intel Corp., Tablets, Desktops, Public Relations, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-08-04

Nuclear recycling--a thing of the past?

Nature.com is reporting President Barack Obama's administration quietly cancelled plans for a large-scale facility to recycle nuclear fuel. The move may prove a fatal blow to the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership GNEP set up by previous President. You may have to pay to read the entire Nature.com...

Tags: Recycling, Nature.com, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-07

Waxman-Markey bill set for vote in U.S. House

Some are fer it, some agin it. The White House seems pleased. Waxman and Markey still have their names on it. Greenpeace evironmentalists despise it, so does Dr. James Hansen we hear. Right wing groups like Heritage Foundation and Americans for Tax Reform are using words like...

Tags: Bill, NRDC, Taxes, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Peeling stickers inspire new path for stretchable electronics

For some, there's inspiration to be found in unremarkable daily minutia. A team of researchers who studied stickers peeling from windows say that what they've observed could lead to a new way to precisely control the fabrication of stretchable electronics. [caption id="attachment_1595" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Delamination demonstration -...

Tags: Surface, Team, Window, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Electronics, Team Management, Construction, Management, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-06-15

HP, Intel, Yahoo collaborate on cloud computing

HP, Intel and Yahoo today announced that three new research organizations will join their Open Cirrus joint effort, a global open source testbed for the advancement of cloud computing research. The continued effort marks increased collaboration between the tech giants for cloud computing....

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Yahoo! Inc., Intel Corp., Open Cirrus, Testbed, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-06-08

Photos: Museum-goers rub shoulders with robots

Every Thursday in San Francisco, the California Academy of Sciences opens after hours for Nightlife, events where patrons schmooze alongside fish, antelopes, and robots. by CNET News.com

Tags: Photograph, Robots, Emerging Technologies, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-05-01

The Green Enterprise: California Academy of Sciences

The Green Enterprise: California Academy of SciencesWhat's so green about spending $480m on a new building?I love the Academy of Science and have been a member for many years. I miss the old building because it had more exhibits, rooms and charm than this building. And it was more affordable,...

Tags: California Academy of Sciences

Discussion threads 2009-03-28

Climate change: less could mean more. That's not good

An update to the most recent IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] report warns that even smaller temperature increases could mean even larger real life changes than earlier IPCC projections. This study was authored by a panel of scientists whoare members of the IPCC. Apparently the IPCC formal...

Tags: Scientist, Sea Level, IPCC, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-02-24

Google to launch next big update to Google Earth

On February 2nd, Google is presenting a new version of Google Earth at the California Academy of Sciences, an aquarium, planetarium and natural history museum in San Francisco. This is the perfect location for them to unveil what I suspect will be what people are calling "Google Ocean". ...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Earth, Ocean, Aerospace & Defense, Productivity, Manufacturing, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2009-01-25

The Green Enterprise: California Academy of Sciences [video]

Since 1853, the California Academy of Sciences has been considered one of the world's most respected institutions. Now more than 150 years later, it's continuing to lead by example, showcasing how a museum can be environmentally sustainable from the ground up. Correspondent Sumi Das looks at the green innovations inside,...

Tags: Solar Energy, Video, Telecom & Utilities, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-24

The Green Enterprise: California Academy of Sciences

Since 1853, the California Academy of Sciences has been considered one of the world's most respected institutions. Now more than 150 years later, it's continuing to lead by example, showcasing how a museum can be environmentally sustainable from the ground up. Correspondent Sumi Das looks at the green innovations inside,...

Tags: Solar Energy, Telecom & Utilities, The Green Enterprise, California Academy of Sciences, Living Roof, Aaron Pope, Ari Harding, Sumi Das

Videos 2008-11-21

Duckshot (Mobile)

Duckshot is a blast of bird hunting fun with multiple hunting locations and engaging puzzle elements. Hunt geese, mallards, pintails, and the elusive Golden Snipe in the action packed hunting game! Beautiful lakes, plenty of birds, and a gun that holds 50 shells, makes Duckshot almost more fun than the...

Tags: Mobile, Fun, Magmic Games, Duckshot, Games, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-11-16

Green tech an integral part of new California Academy of Sciences building

When I still lived in the San Francisco Bay area, I would often wander up to Golden Gate Park and the museums and exhibits nearby. One of my favorite “historic” buildings in the city was the California Academy of Sciences, which now has been completely overhauled with a green bent....

Tags: Green Technology, Museum, Construction, Collaboration, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-19

News to know: Windows 7; Google; Pepcom gadgets; Apple

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ed Bott: How long will Microsoft support XP and Vista? Adam O'Donnell: Webmail providers can fix Palin hack-style problems Is the HTC Dream Google...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Larry Dignan, Green Technology, Microsoft Windows 7, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, Online Communications

Blog posts 2008-09-22

Photos: Academy of Sciences rebirth

Long a San Francisco tradition, the California Academy of Sciences, which was badly damaged in the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989, was closed for major renovations in 2005. On September 27, it is scheduled to re-open, an almost entirely new set of buildings, and one of the world's most innovative...

Tags: Museum, Photograph, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-09-19

We need new sources of Vitamin D

We need new sources of Vitamin DWe need new sources of Vitamin DIf only more people would get out into the sun. I forget the actual amount but I think its like an hour of sunshine a day is good for you but I don't think they quite mean...

Tags: Osteoporosis, vitamin, Vitamin D

Discussion threads 2008-08-13