In a clip from David Attenborough 's 1998 BBC TV series Life of Birds, a lyrebird imitates a chainsaw, kookaburra and car ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Advocates and local city officials held a news conference Wednesday urging Home Depot to remove noise machines ...

For a few hours, tennis fans believed Serena Williams had sparked the start of a comeback. ESPN reported that she reentered the International Tennis Integrity Agency’s registered testing pool, a ...

Hovering blue flames that flicker over bogs and marshes have inspired ghostly folktales for centuries. Known as “will-o’-the-wisp,” “jack-o’-lantern,” “corpse candle” and “ignis fatuus” (“foolish fire ...

Recently, we were treated to an adorable video of Mabel lounging in the shallow end of her family’s pool. She doesn’t even hesitate to dip her nose under the surface—and out pop several tiny and ...

THEY WERE flickering blue flames hovering in swamps. They were the spirits of those who had died in the murky waters, bent on leading others to the same fate. They were will-o’-the-wisps and they do ...

Under a midnight moon, Luigi Garlaschelli peered out over graves. He was scouting for glowing balls of light known as will-o’-the-wisps. Like a ghostbuster, Garlaschelli, a chemist formerly at the ...

Bubbles merging in water can spontaneously generate electric sparks powerful enough to ignite methane, which could explain mysterious flashes of light known as will-o’-the-wisps. In bogs, swamps and ...

A yellowthroat warbler sang, “witchety, witchety, witch,” as I carefully made my way through the tangle of an alder swamp one afternoon not long ago. I looked about, hoping to catch a glimpse of its ...

There may be plays in the theater canon that are longer, more complex and more dramatically draining, but there’s probably no stage comedy that demands more from its ensemble cast than “Noises Off.” ...

Police cited a homeowner for violating the city’s noise ordinance at 8:42 p.m. June 12. Officers had issued a warning to the homeowner when they responded to complaints of noise during a pool party.