The insects can eat twice their body weight in sugary fruit without increasing their blood sugar. What’s going on in their ...

As soon as the first ever flowers unfurled from their buds in the early Cretaceous period, they were visited by pollinators.

As twilight settles, the world’s most misunderstood mammals take to the skies. Bats, with their leathery wings and mysterious ways, have long fascinated—and, let’s be honest, sometimes ...

Have you ever walked through a garden on a warm night, unaware that tiny, winged mammals are silently working above your head ...

Alabama softball's bats came alive on Sunday as the Crimson Tide avoided a sweep with an 8-5 win over No. 5/7 LSU at Tiger Park in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The No. 24/23 Crimson Tide was run-ruled ...

Torpedo bats are changing Major League Baseball, but with his head in the sand, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred wants us to know: "Nothing to see here!" Torpedo bats change the distribution of the ...

A week has passed since torpedo bats burst onto the scene as the talk of the 2025 MLB season, and the hitting innovation is still buzzing through the industry. We asked our MLB reporters to talk ...

The spacing between bats increases from 14 to 25 meters from the cave to 60 meters when they are 300 meters away; the risk of collision then becomes almost negligible. But what happens where the ...

Never one to shy away from a controversial topic, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred lauded “torpedo” bats as the future of America’s pastime, calling them “absolutely good for baseball” in a ...

For his first day of work in June 1999, Scott Smith arrived at the makeshift bat factory, a three-level brick corner house in Ottawa with a stop sign sprouting up from the tree-lawn shrubs.

Torpedo bats are all the rage this season, and Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred believes all that chatter is positive for the sport. “They’re absolutely good for baseball ...

Bats perceive their world mostly through echolocation. Many bats echolocate at once when a whole colony emerges from a cave. As a result, the calls of others are drowned out. Scientists call this ...