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Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (History of Science and Humanities), German peer-reviewed history of science journal founded 1978, organ of the Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsgeschichte until 2018, published quarterly by Wiley-VCH, ISSNs 0170-6233 and 1522-2365.

Beriev A-50

The Beriev A-50, NATO name Mainstay and designated Il-82, is a Russian airborne early warning and control aircraft built on the Il-76 transport, in service since 1984.

Beriev Be-12

The Beriev Be-12, also known as the Chayka (Бе-12) or Mail (NATO reporting name), is a Soviet twin-turboprop maritime patrol and anti-submarine amphibian from Taganrog.

Beriev Be-200

The Beriev Be-200 Altair is a Russian twin-engine jet-powered amphibious aircraft designed by Beriev for aerial firefighting, which scoops 12 tonnes of water in a gliding pass.

Bering Air Flight 445

Bering Air Flight 445, a Cessna 208B Caravan (N321BA) charter, crashed onto pack ice near Nome, Alaska, on February 6, 2025, killing all 10 aboard; the NTSB cited icing, inadequate airspeed management, and an overweight airplane.

Bering and Chirikov expedition

The Bering and Chirikov expedition was the 1741 voyage of the ships St. Peter and St. Paul that made a European sighting and landing on Alaska.

Bering Island

Bering Island (остров Беринга), largest of Russia's Commander Islands in the Bering Sea 175 km east of Kamchatka; named for Vitus Bering, who was shipwrecked and died there in 1741; village Nikolskoye.

Bering Sea

The Bering Sea is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean bounded by Russia, Alaska, and the Aleutian Islands, named for navigator Vitus Bering, who died there in 1741.

Bering Sea agreements between the United States and the Soviet Union/Russia

The Bering Sea agreements are two US–Soviet/Russian instruments defining the maritime boundary: the 1867 Alaska purchase convention and the 1990 Maritime Boundary Agreement, applied but never ratified by Russia.

Bering Sea Gold

Bering Sea Gold, also marketed as Gold Divers, is a Discovery Channel reality series premiering January 27, 2012, following gold miners dredging the Bering Sea floor off Nome, Alaska; it set Discovery's highest-rated series launch with 3.66 million viewers.

Bering Strait

Bering Strait: 44-mile-wide seaway between Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, and Cape Dezhneva, Siberia, linking the Bering Sea to the Chukchi Sea; named for Vitus Bering, who sailed it in 1728; key Arctic shipping chokepoint.

Bering Strait crossing

The Bering Strait crossing, also called the Intercontinental Peace Bridge, is a hypothetical bridge or tunnel linking Russia's Chukotka Peninsula with Alaska's Seward Peninsula, proposed since the late 1800s and never built.

Beringia

Beringia, also known as the Bering Land Bridge, is a region connecting Asia and North America across the Bering Strait when sea levels fell during ice ages.

Beringian wolf

Beringian wolf: a robust Pleistocene gray wolf (Canis lupus) ecomorph of Beringia, genetically distinct from modern wolves and extinct at the Pleistocene-Holocene transition; modern wolves descend from a later Beringian expansion.

Sep 20, 2026

Berislav V. Zloković

Berislav V. Zloković, also written Berislav Zlokovic, is a neuroscientist and physician at the University of Southern California who showed blood-brain barrier breakdown is an early biomarker of cognitive dysfunction.

Berit Kvello Aunli

Berit Kvello Aunli (Berit Kristine Kvello-Aunli, born 1956 in Stjørdal) is a Norwegian former cross-country skier who won three Olympic and five World Championship medals, taking triple gold at the 1982 World Championships.

Berit Mørdre Lammedal

Berit Mørdre Lammedal (1940–2016), Norwegian cross-country skier of the "Jentut'n" team; Olympic relay gold and 10 km silver at Grenoble 1968, relay bronze Sapporo 1972, first Norwegian woman with the Holmenkollen medal (1971).

Berka Buse Özden

Berka Buse Özden (born 2004), Turkish middle blocker for VakıfBank Istanbul and Team Türkiye; 2026 VNL champion, 2022 U19 European Championship best attacker, 2023-24 Turkish Cup best blocker.

Berke

Berke (died 1266), grandson of Genghis Khan and son of Jochi, ruled the Golden Horde 1257–1266, converted to Islam, allied with Mamluk sultan Baibars, and waged war against Hulagu's Ilkhanate over the Caucasus.

Oct 22, 2026

Berke–Hulagu war

The Berke–Hulagu war was an armed conflict between the Golden Horde under Berke Khan and the Ilkhanate under Hulagu Khan, fought mainly in the Caucasus from 1262 to 1266.

Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research

Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research is an academic artificial intelligence research organization at UC Berkeley, bringing together more than 50 faculty and over 300 graduate students and postdocs.

Berkeley Castle

Berkeley Castle is a Norman castle in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, begun c. 1067–1070 by William FitzOsbern and held by the Berkeley family since 1153; site of Edward II's 1327 murder, Grade I listed with Grade II registered park.

Berkeley County, South Carolina, United States

Berkeley County, South Carolina: Lowcountry county with county seat Moncks Corner; created 1682, reestablished 1882; 2020 population 229,861, 2025 estimate 274,666; major manufacturing and Redwood Materials investment.

Berkeley DB

Berkeley DB (BDB) is an embedded key-value database library that applications link into their own process, begun at UC Berkeley in 1991 and owned by Oracle since 2006.

Berkeley Deep Drive

Berkeley DeepDrive is an industry-supported research consortium at UC Berkeley, founded in 2015, that studies computer vision, robotics, and machine learning for automotive applications and released the BDD100K driving video dataset.

Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature

Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature is an independent global temperature record produced by the Berkeley Earth non-profit in California, combining land and ocean measurements from 1850 onward.

Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard

The Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL) is a UC Berkeley benchmark and public leaderboard measuring how accurately large language models call functions and tools, launched by the team behind the Gorilla model.

Berkeley Humanoid

Berkeley Humanoid is a mid-scale bipedal research robot developed at UC Berkeley and introduced in July 2024 as a reliable, low-cost platform for reinforcement-learning locomotion control.