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The discovery that silver-haired bats sing is allowing bat biologists to record their locations, so they aren’t killed by wind-power development

The season is acquiring a looser set of characteristic features, harder to specify, more variable and more unpredictable.

Canada should ban all advertising, marketing, promotion and sponsorship involving vaping companies to avoid hooking a new generation of smokers

‘Deep reading,’ the process of reading attentively and carefully as opposed to skimming or scrolling a screen, helps kids develop capacity for critical thinking, empathy and reflection

The sounds fish make are poorly understood, but advances in passive acoustic listening could pave the way for understanding and managing underwater ecosystems like never before.

Check out our column on the good things your neighbours are doing

‘Sincerely’ is a traditional letter ending but lacks authenticity. I have not been sincere since the late 1980s, and I think it shows in my correspondence and general deportment

The tobacco industry continues to produce and market its deadly products around the world, particularly in low- and middle-income countries

Keeping the brain active and learning new, intellectually demanding skills can have significant benefits for older people

It takes time and planning, but keepers can get almost anything delivered to their remote locations