In a game often rooted in tradition, a new baseball bat is making waves, shaking up the sport with its unique design and unprecedented results. Dubbed the "torpedo bat," this innovative piece of ...

On night walks through Highgate Wood, Cindy Blaney shares the whirling wonder of the often-maligned mammals with the humans ...

Casual viewers of Major League Baseball have probably noticed that players warming up sometimes take practice swings with a peculiar apparatus attached to their bat. It looks kind of like a ring, ...

Studies have demonstrated that ~60%–80% of emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) in humans originated from wild life. Bats are natural reservoirs of a large variety of viruses, including many important ...

Long before Spanish Conquistadors and Christopher Columbus returned to Europe with stories of blood-sipping bats, European communities were telling tales of undead monsters called vampires. But the ...

Ever thought about buying or building a bat box to help bats? Think carefully about the design and where you put it, University of Illinois researchers say. Here's why: Bats and their pups can ...

Finding an infestation of tiny, biting bugs in your house is always cause for alarm. You might immediately assume that you have bed bugs, but you may have a lesser-known relative of the bed bug: the ...

Judith Kaplan, daughter of the influential rabbi Mordechai Kaplan, became the first woman to publicly celebrate the traditional Jewish coming-of-age ceremony. Becoming a bat mitzvah, or "daughter of ...