To hear a nightingale sing had been for years one of my heart’s unfulfilled desires; had I not heard him praised in books, poems, and songs, especially songs ? Every one knows of more nightingale ...

In the weeks before writing the song “Ode to a Nightingale,” Bruce Sudano was deeply captivated by the poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini. Following Pasolini’s references to the nightingale bird, Sudano ...

Since 2007, amateur (and less amateur) astronauts have been vying to land a privately funded spacecraft on the moon, in response to a challenge from Google and the nonprofit XPrize, which incentivizes ...

The singing of song birds can form complex signal systems comprised of numerous subunits sung with distinct combinatorial properties that have been described as syntax-like. This complexity has ...

My daughter told the story with a mixture of mirth and distaste. “So the nightingale has returned outside my bedroom window,” she began. I pictured the window in her apartment where I had lived with ...