Baseball bats don’t break because the hit was too strong. They break because stress concentrates in places the eye can’t see.

In 2018, researchers from Bat Conservation International, Cameroon’s University of Maroua and the American Museum of Natural ...

The potential for sending payloads and people to Mars is therefore becoming plausible in a way that it never has before. Mars ...

The science pros at TKOR guide you safely through making your own DIY bat blades. JFK's niece has message for man who bought ...

One wildlife rehabilitator is helping safeguard bat species through rehabilitation and conservation initiatives.

The world still holds its secrets. Hidden under wet rocks, in the ocean’s twilight crevices, and in the minutiae of the ...

The stereotypical image of blood-sucking creatures is gone. In reality, bats are docile and help our ecosystems run smoothly.

A curious idea often circles human speech patterns. People subtly mirror sounds heard from friends. Similar behaviour appears in wild animals too. New research now reveals that vampire bats do ...

Highlands, North Carolina — In the North Carolina town of Highlands, about 20 feet below ground in a goldmine from the 1800s, there is a race against time to save a bat population whose numbers are ...

Ecologist and neurobiologist Yovel shares the fruits of his decades of field and lab research on bats in this standout work of popular science. The almost 1,500 species of bats around the world, he ...

For the nearly three-year-old female bat soaring into the Spanish sky in March 2023, it was just another night of striving to feed itself. But the bat’s overnight exploits were about to become the ...

Research into cooking the perfect pasta sauce, another probing the types of pizza lizards liked to eat, and a study wondering whether painting cows with stripes protected them from flies are among the ...