Flying slowly and silently through the night sky, barn owls are majestic nocturnal hunters that successfully prey on rodents scurrying along the ground below. Scientists have long puzzled over a ...

Night singers like Nightingales seek mates under cover of darkness. Mockingbirds mimic sounds; males sing all night to attract mates. European Robins adapt to urban noise by singing at night. Birds ...

Some nights are predestined to be mysterious and frightening. On such nights, we are alone in a park, forest, vaulted cellar, warehouse, or big old house, perhaps a castle. It’s so dark that we can ...

The way barn owl brains use sound to locate prey may be a template for electronic directional navigation devices, according to engineers who are recreating owl brain circuitry in electronics. The way ...