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Welcome to Science Quest ! 🚀 This week, we are celebrating a massive champion crowned in Fat Bear Week, investigating a mystery in Antarctica, and unlocking the secrets of solving crimes with science! 🐻 Fat Bear Week Champion: The votes are in and the chubbiest champion of Alaska's Katmai National Park has officially been crowned! Discover how wild brown bears gobble down thousands of calories a day to bulk up for winter hibernation. 🐧 The Disappearing Colony: Shocking polar news from Antarctica! Scientists have discovered that two-thirds of the Chinstrap penguin population has vanished from a remote island. Learn how shifts in ocean ice and krill populations are affecting penguin…