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  • A popular science training program at the Exploratorium is expanding to accommodate more teachers who want to pick up new skills.
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  • Construction has already started on a $300 million Caltrans bypass project in Willits, but the controversy hasn't stopped.
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  • California inmates in Security Housing Units
  • A hunger strike at several California prisons has entered its fourth week as inmates protest the current use of isolation units.
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  • Teens put finishing touches on science of skateboarding
  • The Exploratorium in San Francisco opened a new exhibit on the science of skateboarding  one of the first traveling exhibits.
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  • ABC7 Top Scholar: Casey Leonard
  • A gay Bay Area boy scout's message of tolerance and work as a role model has made him one of this year's ABC7 Top Scholars.
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  • Artists find backers online
  • Artists have always struggled to find places to fund or sell their artwork, but the Internet is making that easier.
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  • Faire hopes to attract more women
  • The Maker Faire is expected to attract thousands people, but they hope to get more girls interested in engineering.
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  • Pandemonium Aviaries
  • Tucked away in the Los Altos Hills, there is a bird sanctuary that few people know about -- Pandemonium Aviaries.
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  • San Clemente Dam
  • Monterey County supervisors gave their approval for the largest dam removal project in California's history.
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  • Chuck Leavell sat down with ABC7 News anchor Dan Ashley for an exclusive one-on-one conversation.
  • Chuck Leavell sat down with ABC7 News anchor Dan Ashley for an exclusive one-on-one conversation.
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  • Update on Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care animals
  • ABC7 News has followed a number of rescued animals near Lake Tahoe. Here's an update on how they're doing.
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  • Exploratorium celebrates opening with light show
  • The Exploratorium will have a free light show on Wednesday and Thursday night to celebrate the grand opening.
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  • Exploratorium to debut outside fog exhibit
  • The new Exploratorium will feature impressive outdoor exhibits such as a fog sculpture created by Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya.
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  • ABC7 presents an exclusive behind the scenes look at San Francisco's Exploratorium as it moves into the future.
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  • ABC7 goes along with the California Academy of Sciences on the biggest expedition in its history, to the Philippines, a biological hotspot.
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  • Academy hatches penguin in Golden Gate Park
  • A penguin who hatched at the California Academy of Sciences needs a new name and you can help name it.
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  • Exploratoriums algae chandelier
  • ABC7 News got an exclusive preview of the new Exploratorium on Pier 15. Look around and you'll see everything is an exhibit.
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  • Exploratorium takes hands-on a step further
  • The brand new Exploratorium opens soon and we got an exclusive look to see how they're taking hands-on experiments to a new level.
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  • Marlo Thomas at the East Bay Womens Conference in San Ramon
  • At the East Bay Women's Conference in San Ramon Marlo Thomas encouraged women to continue working on their dreams.
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  • EBAC kid writing at desk
  • An East Bay agency has worked for 60 years to help kids cope with violence, and also stop the cycle from being passed on.
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  • gold
  • With the high price of gold, some of California's big gold mining operations will reopen and return to full speed.
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  • Lake Tahoe wildlife center releases bear cubs into wild
  • ABC7 News took a look at what it takes to care for 2 orphan bear cubs and witnesses their release back into the wild.
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  • Cisco sign
  • Center for Investigative Reporting finds that the largest tech firms are legally avoiding taxes by sheltering their assets overseas.
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  • Lake Tahoe wildlife center is busy with bears
  • Winter is usually a slow time for a Lake Tahoe wildlife rescue center, but they're busy with more orphaned bear cubs than ever.
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  • Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan and San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr
  • Oakland and SF's top cops sat down together for the first time, talking exclusively with ABC7 News about their plans to fight crime.
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  • Picture of an owl
  • Animals in need have been arriving at Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care nearly non-stop for weeks.
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  • Long-term payment bonds hurting Calif. school districts
  • School districts and taxpayers will have to pay huge balloon payments because districts desperate for cash entered long-term bonds.
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  • neglected Pier 70
  • The city of San Francisco and other developers have created a plan to fix up the long-neglected waterfront of Pier 70.
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  • Exploratorium creator Frank Oppenheimer
  • Though the San Francisco Exploratorium is moving to a new home, the museum's founder's dream is still flourishing.
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  • The countdown is on with two and a half weeks until we say goodbye to the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
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  • Salumeria chef Matt Sigler
  • As more and more people want to know what's in their food, there is a growing movement to learn how to cure your own meat.
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  • Octopus
  • Bay Area conservationists are back from a dramatic deep sea expedition to protect underwater canyons in Alaska.
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  • GoPro Hero camera
  • The tiny video camera taking the sports world by storm was started here in the Bay Area by a local surfer, looking for a better shot.
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  • off-road motorcyclist
  • Four decades ago, off roaders set aside money to preserve places for them to ride, but the state has been tapping into that fund.
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  • Veteran Hosea Roundtree with friends
  • The Center for Investigative Reporting found that many veterans are unfairly denied benefits because of errors made by the VA.
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  • Hetch Hetchy project uses freezing technique
  • ABC7 News got an exclusive look at the different technique being used in the Hetch Hetchy seismic upgrade project.
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  • 

Leah Albright-Byrd
  • A lot of Americans think of sex trafficking as an overseas crime, but it's a big problem in the US and Prop 35 hopes to help fight it.
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  • Website reunites African Americans with outdoors
  • African Americans are less likely to go camping than any other race, but one group is closing the racial divide of the outdoors.
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  • Neighbors upset over off-road vehicle expansion plan
  • Neighbors and environmentalists are upset over the off-road Carnegie State Vehicular Recreation Area expansion plan.
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  • CEID school turns 30 and still going strong
  • ABC7 News revisits a deaf school 14 years later and takes a look at its success.
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  • heads-up-displays in cars
  • ABC7 News takes a closer look at heads-up-displays and a Bay Area company hoping to change what you see when you drive.
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  • Scientists map local underwater Grand Canyon
  • Government scientists started mapping an underwater Grand Canyon near the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary.
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  • Researchers help curb invasive clam at Lake Tahoe
  • UC Davis researchers found good news about an experiment to try to control the invasive Asian clam at Lake Tahoe.
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  • Drone
  • A look into the growing popularity of drones and how all you need to fly one of these robotic aircraft is your smartphone.
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  • ABC7 Top Scholar: Tatiana Suriano
  • One high school student in Richmond chose to rise above negativity and became an ABC7 News top scholar.
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  • State police departments benefit from military surplus
  • Our media partners at California Watch found state police departments have received expensive military surplus equipment.
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  • Science of weather on display at Exploratorium
  • Visitors now have the opportunity to get involved in weather as the Exploratorium focuses on the science of severe storms.
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  • Food imports blamed for disease outbreaks
  • Nearly half of all food borne disease outbreaks in 2009 and 2010 were caused by imported food according to new numbers from the CDC.
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  • Nevada gives Calif. ultimatum on Tahoe Compact
  • After decades of fighting between environmentalists and developers, Nevada has given California an ultimatum.
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  • Unsolved deaths, injuries at state-run facilities
  • An investigation by ABC7 media partner California Watch has uncovered a pattern of abuse and neglect at state-run developmental centers.
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