EAST DURHAM — Thrift shoppers were in for a real hoot last month when a live owl was found nestled among antiques at an indoor flea market in East Durham. On Feb. 21, a customer was walking down an ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — This was no mystery, but police officers in upstate New York had a “whoooo-dunit” on their hands last week. Officers in Syracuse rescued an injured Eastern screech owl in the snowy ...

Humans aren’t the only ones with romance on their minds in February. This is the month when many species of owls, including the eastern screech owl, embark on their pair-bonding and courtship rituals.

Unlike the large, familiar great-horned owl, the western screech owl is small and not often seen. Where the great-horned stands about 20 inches tall and weighs as much as a bottle of wine, the screech ...

Most modern vehicles use one of three different types of brake pads: organic, ceramic, and semi-metallic. In motorsports, some vehicles feature carbon-ceramic pads because they offer superior stopping ...

HAVANA TIMES – The day doesn’t begin; it emerges. The first ray of sunlight slips between the bars of a balcony. Clothes hang like flags drifting in the half-light of the central courtyard. There is ...

For the first time, researchers have made niobium sulfide metallic nanotubes with stable, predictable properties, a long-sought goal in advanced materials science. According to the international team, ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The logo of the Internet company AOL can be seen in Munich. Gambarini Maurizio/dpa A chapter of internet history is coming to a ...