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Meet 'Backpack', the chunky bear who won Fat Bear Week
The brown bear, described by one supporter as having both the "chonk and the badonk", will shortly enter hibernation, which can last up to six months.
Orionid meteor shower to streak across night sky this week
The Orionid meteor shower peaks in October as Earth passes through debris left behind by Halley’s Comet.
Watch: Moment a government building collapses into a river in Nepal amid floods
The municipality building in Baglung was left teetering on an unstable ledge due to floods before it fell into a river.
Gold beetles to Darwin's finds - the 70 million museum artefacts going online
More than 70 million specimens from 100 UK collections will be put into an online digital museum
Oura pulls $15bn stock market listing days after announcement
The wearable technology company had been expected to list its shares in the US.
Hurricane Polo makes landfall on Mexico's Pacific coast
The storm moved ashore on the Baja California peninsula, which is a popular tourist destination.
Warning more homes will be uninsurable due to flood risk
Aviva boss Amanda Blanc said England was "for sure" building homes that might be uninsurable at some point in the future.
Watch: Bangkok locals create floating market during floods
As sellers waded through floodwaters to sell produce like fish and vegetables from floating platforms and foam boxes, buyers walked or paddled between the makeshift stalls to buy their groceries.
Watch: Starship splashdown ends in fireball
The mission was supposed to last 10 hours, but SpaceX announced it was ending after 90 minutes.
Fossil found on Welsh beach ends 'confusion' over 200-million-year-old fish teeth
Fossilised teeth across Europe had been wrongly identified until the latest find in south Wales.
Watch: From launch to fiery splashdown, SpaceX's Starship completes orbit test
A thunderous lift off, rapid satellite deployments and a fiery ending. That's how SpaceX's 14th launch of its Starship rocket panned out today.
Offshore wind plant to bring jobs boost to Montrose
The new facility will manufacture parts for offshore wind farms in Scottish waters and for overseas markets.
Shipwreck found on Nantucket beach during storm
The so-called nor'easter storm has washed up what may be a shipwreck from the 19th century in Massachusetts, local media says.
Only 28% of nurdles 'recovered', researchers say
Scientists predict that nurdles will continue to wash up on North East beaches.
Young minds develop ideas to tackle climate change
Sixteen teenagers take part in a hackathon to devise ways to combat issues such as light pollution.
Dead animals found in canal where children row
Residents in Brentford raise concerns about sewage flowing into the local canal network.
Gold beetles to Darwin's finds - the 70 million museum artefacts going online
More than 70 million specimens from 100 UK collections will be put into an online digital museum
Lives 'will be lost' unless UK does more to combat wildfires, committee chairwoman says
Baroness Brown says there must be better training and planning, after a record year for wildfires in England and Wales.
Hull conference to discuss training space workers
The event will bring together leaders from industry, education and the space sector.
Watch: Starship splashdown ends in fireball
The mission was supposed to last 10 hours, but SpaceX announced it was ending after 90 minutes.
Watch: From launch to fiery splashdown, SpaceX's Starship completes orbit test
A thunderous lift off, rapid satellite deployments and a fiery ending. That's how SpaceX's 14th launch of its Starship rocket panned out today.
The ups and downs of SpaceX's Starship test flights
The BBC's Ricky Boleto looks how previous SpaceX test flights went.
Watch: The ups and downs of SpaceX's 13 Starship test flights
The BBC's Ricky Boleto looks how previous SpaceX test flights went.
Warning more homes will be uninsurable due to flood risk
Aviva boss Amanda Blanc said England was "for sure" building homes that might be uninsurable at some point in the future.
The treasured 'eternal snow' on this tropical island is about to disappear forever
Climate change is transforming Papua's snowy peaks, which hold scientific value and spiritual significance.
Just how hot and dry was your summer? Use our postcode lookup to find out
Most of us experienced drought and heatwaves - but temperatures and rainfall were not the same everywhere.
Farmers' fury as race for £233m funding compared to 'scramble for Oasis tickets'
Farmers fear they may not be able to carry out environmental work because they lost out on funding.
More than 170,000 respiratory cases recorded in haze-choked Indonesia
More than 40,000 of the cases – which range from mild coughs to pneumonia – involve toddlers.
How do we measure time accurately and why is the rotation of the Earth causing problems?
Might the UK and US joining their AI forces help solve nuclear fusion?
Prof Stuart Russell offers some advice following a report into July’s Hugging Face hack.
Researchers may have discovered the signature of a bit of dark matter.
First dinosaur bone from Antarctica found in a drawer
The fossil, collected in Antarctica in 1985, is part of the tail of a beast called a Titanosaur.
Fossil identified as first dinosaur ever found in Antarctica
Argentinian geologist Eduardo Olivero became the first scientist to find the remains of a dinosaur in Antarctica in 1986.
Simpler, older version of Stonehenge found three miles from famous site
The structure consisted of two posts that lined up with the solstices 5,000 years ago.
From blast off to splashdown: My days following Nasa's historic mission to the Moon
BBC Science Editor Rebecca Morelle reflects on how it felt to watch history being made.
The 40 minutes when the Artemis crew loses contact with the Earth
As the astronauts pass behind the Moon they will experience a moment of silence and solitude as communication with the Earth is blocked.
How cleaning up the air is speeding up global warming - and revealing a bigger problem
A curious online row over this summer's heatwaves points to a wider - and worrying - shift in climate science.
How the UK's extreme heat is shifting the conversation about air-con
Should we embrace air conditioning despite its costs and consequences?
The hidden cost of the night shift and how to sleep it off
More than three million people in the UK work night shifts, which can greatly impact their health. What can be done to help them?
After record heat, could the Atlantic make Britain's weather even more extreme?
As temperatures rise, scientists are investigating whether a changing Atlantic could bring more volatile weather to the UK
Why cheap power could matter more than clean power in the push for net zero
The question of how important making our electricity clean is to going green is coming under increasing scrutiny
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