In late autumn a male great horned owl sent his soft, deep hoots out from a stand of trees in Minnetonka. He'd been away for two months and was making it known that this was still his territory, after ...

On a recent winter day on a wind farm in Germany, workers scaled 544-foot-tall wind turbines and started adding fringe-like attachments to the massive blades. The design, inspired by the shape of owl ...

Modern life is noisy – from the constant hum of traffic to the roar of machinery. But there’s something to learn from nature’s ultimate silent hunter, the owl. Owls are silent flyers because their ...