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The Irish brewery will no longer use fish bladders to make its beer
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When Kids Played With Alligators in Los Angeles
Babies, dogs and onlookers mixed with snapping reptiles at California’s Alligator Farm
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The Culprits Behind Mysterious Mass Antelope Deaths Finally Exposed
More than half of the world’s endangered saiga antelopes died suddenly on the Central Asian steppes last spring
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A Minecraft World Built for Exploring Chemicals
The new world, called MolCraft, is a virtual chemistry museum
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This Scientist Live-Tweets Cheetah Hunts
Documenting nature in all its beauty, viciousness, hilarity and boredom
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A 2,000-Year-Old Greek Fortress Has Been Unearthed in Jerusalem
The fort played a role in the Jewish revolts that inspired Hanukkah
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Forget the Hazy Clouds—The Internet is in the Ocean
This new video explores the 550,000 miles of cable that keeps the internet humming
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New Fossils Show Ostrich-like Dinosaurs Sported a Coat of Plumage
Bits of ancient feathers and skin still clung to the exquisitely preserved fossils
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This Incredible Street Art Is Also An Evolution Lesson
In Rome, a giant mural illustrates how life began and evolved
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Hidden Poop Joke Found in 17th-Century Art Owned By Queen Elizabeth
The newly restored Dutch painting depicts a man relieving himself
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Someone Just Paid $826,000 for the Greatest Cat Painting of All Time
“My Wife’s Lovers” pays tribute to the wealthiest cats of the 1890s
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According to This 1919 Writing Guide, There Are Only 37 Possible Stories
From love and disaster to “a miracle of God,” the 96-year-old manual outlines every known plot
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Weak Skeletons May Have Spelled the End for Mammoths
New results suggest that weak bones made the beasts more susceptible to human hunters
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Orion’s Return, Falling Fireballs and Other Treats in November’s Night Skies
A constellation rises as the Leonid and Taurid Meteor Showers return
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Amazon Just Opened An Actual Bookstore in Seattle
And just like its online marketplace, Amazon’s brick-and-mortar shop aims to shake up the industry
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What is Happening to Antarctica’s Ice Sheets
While parts of Antarctica get icier, others are on the verge of collapse
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Coywolves Are Taking Over Eastern North America
Coywolves are not ‘shy wolves’—they are coyote-wolf hybrids (with some dog mixed in) and now number in the millions
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The World of Competitive Curling Has Its Very Own Scandal
Is new technology too dominant for the Olympic sport?
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A Black American’s Guide to Travel In the Jim Crow Era
For decades, The Green Book was the black traveler’s lifeline
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How Computers Learned to Play Nintendo
Super Mario World is a great test for artificial intelligence
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