Bats, the world’s only flying mammals, spend much of their lives eating. In North America, most of them chow down on insects — things like mosquitos, moths, and leafhoppers. They can catch as many as 1,000 bugs in a single hour. We benefit from bats’ dietary preferences. Beyond limiting the number of disease-carrying, skin-irritating mosquitoes, bats […]
We all know the medal winners for the competitions that have taken place so far in the 2024 Paris Olympics (or, rather, they’re all a single click away). The US women’s gymnastics team reclaimed gold for the team all-around after a second-place finish in Tokyo, while the men’s team won its first medal in the […]