Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano's 2008 landmark green building, the California Academy of Sciences, houses Pierre the Penguin and 38, 000 other weird and wonderful animals under a "living roof" of California wildflowers.

BBC: San Francisco's blissful Golden Gate Park

Today Alemseged is the director of anthropology at the California Academy of Sciences, a multifaceted scientific institution and museum where he combines his scientific research with his passion for public education.

CNN: How Ethiopian scientist unearthed 'world's oldest child'

Although the seasonal equinoxes and solstices seem to divide the year into four equal parts, when you count the days of what we officially call winter, spring, summer and fall, each season is different, says Bing Quock, acting chairman of the Morrison Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences.

NPR: Not All Seasons Are Created Equal

John McCosker, chairman of aquatic biology at the California Academy of Sciences, estimates that 90% of the sharks that once inhabited the world's oceans have now disappeared, due to overfishing and shark finning a practice in which sharks are captured and their fins are sliced off for use in shark-fin soup.

WSJ: Stefanie Brendl: To Swim With the Sharks | Creating

Research published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and conducted at the University of California, San Francisco pinpoints a particular molecule that resets your food clock every time you change your eating habits.

FORBES: Holiday Overindulgence Got You Down? Blame Your 'Food Clock'

But a paper in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, by Dr Prusiner and his colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco, holds the possibility of a treatment.

ECONOMIST: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease