Mosquitoes transmit several pathogens of public health importance, including malaria, dengue, chikungunya and Zika. These ...

Noise pollution is affecting bird behavior across the globe, disrupting everything from courtship songs to the ability to find food and avoid predators, a large-scale new analysis showed on Wednesday.

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Pigeons at Norwich Market could soon be fed contraceptives in an effort to reduce their numbers and ease tensions over the site's flocks. Norwich City Council is considering the measure to address ...

Usama has a passion for video games and a talent for capturing their magic in writing. He brings games to life with his words, and he's been fascinated by games for as long as he's had a joystick in ...

With more tunes than a chemist's counter and a way with words that probably wouldn't delight the grand old dukes of Shakespearian grammar but sound like good food and flowing drink to the rest of the ...

In First Stage's new musical, The Pigeon, Elephant Gerald, Piggie and Zoomy Squirrel have both big feelings and big expectations about the holidays. Those lead to big problems, but also big songs and ...

Comedian Fred Armisen has just put out a new album. It is called "100 Sound Effects" - and that's exactly what it is. Over the years, fans of Armisen's comedy have come to expect the unexpected - ...

Not long ago, Fred Armisen was reminiscing about the sound-effect LPs he used to stock at the Chicago record store where he worked in the Nineties. These vinyl platters contained all kinds of sounds, ...

Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. For this package, we’ve been asking authors and illustrators to discuss the decisions influencing a single page or ...

A plan to genetically engineer a version of the dodo, a giant flightless bird that disappeared 400 years ago and became the poster child for extinction, has made some headway, according to Texas-based ...