MinuteEarth, which has 3.23 million subscribers, explains that all of these feathers are real bird feathers, and there are no fakes. These are inexpensive feathers sold at craft stores, but they are ...

(via MinuteEarth) Monkeys seem like they would be great companions and even helpers, but they have a number of traits that make them terrible candidates for domestication.

An ecologist in Wales uses tracking dogs to help track & protect the endangered wild otter population; meet The Detectorists. Set against the serene backdrop of rural Wales, this short documentary ...

In a recent bombshell piece for the New Yorker (archive), Rachel Aviv explored the personal journals of the celebrated neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks. What she found was shocking: he had ...

(via SciShow) Most science experiments take a few months or years, but some take a whole lot longer. Here are six of the longest-running experiments of all time, including one... (via Steve Mould) We ...