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Bears

Fat Bear Week final: It’s Bear #910 vs. Backpack

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Bears

Fat Bear Week semi-final results: Backpack and Bear #910 advance to final

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Bears

Fat Bear Week, Round 2 results: Bucky Dent, Backpack, 132, and 910 triumph

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The History of Every Thing

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Bears

Fat Bear Week Round 1, Part 2 results: A former champion falls and a big butt moves on

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Bears

Fat Bear Week Round 1, Part 1 results: Resilient moms and strong sisters triumph

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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

This man died more than 700 years ago—so why does he look like he got hit by a car?

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Bears

Record-setting Fat Bear Week turnout overloads voting site

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Birds

20 soaring images from the Bird Photographer of the Year 2026 awards

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Bears

Mama Bear #132 has one of Fat Bear Week’s most compelling stories

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Luss is a village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, on the west bank of Loch Lomond.
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What do you want to happen to your body after you die?

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Bears

Katmai bear cubs tumble over waterfall

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Ocean

16 splashy and spectacular images from the 2026 Ocean Photographer of the Year awards

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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Yes, scientists really built a “tickle robot.” Here’s why.

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Dogs

Why dogs tilt their heads, according to science

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NGC 3938 is a face-on spiral galaxy whose orientation gives us an unobstructed view of its disk. X-ray emissions from Chandra (magenta) detail energetic X-ray binaries and supernova remnants scattered across dust lanes in an optical image (white, blue and gold) from Adam Block with Mt. Lemmon Observatory. Face-on orientations are important for galactic studies because they provide the most unobstructed views of a galaxy’s stars and gas.
Solar System

16 glistening galaxies shine in new images form NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory

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Birds

Tweet! Here are the winners of the 2026 Audubon Photography Awards

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Dogs

Say hello to the TSA’s Cutest Canine of 2026

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a small mammal with pink skin and large teeth called a naked mole rat pokes out of a burrow
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Naked mole rats make their own perfume—and it’s excellent birth control

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Yellowstone eruption, illustration. Yellowstone National Park in America is sited above an underground magma chamber. It is, in effect, a potential supervolcano. This illustration shows a section through the Earth during an eruption.
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How likely is a Yellowstone ‘supervolcano’ eruption today?

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