Found in the forests of Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and Eastern Australia, birds of paradise are famous for flashy feathers ...

Many types of birds — such as hummingbirds, peacocks and parrots — are vividly colorful, but birds-of-paradise are especially ...

Allows the simulation of natural photoperiod which regulates hormones The proprietary LEDs are designed to mimic the wavelengths and light levels of a natural environment. Comes in 3 lenghts ...

The slope and the direction that the slope faces, called aspect, also influences the intensity of the sun on a surface. North ...

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I think this might be the first time I’ve ever seen a squirrel’s breath. It was sitting on a branch nibbling a spruce cone ...

It was another daily record-breaking cold day on Thursday. Temperatures only made it to 13° in Springfield. Some spots did ...

It may be baseball’s most over-worked cliche: You can never have too much pitching. On the opening weekend of Grapefruit League play, the Red Sox are finding it to be true. Again. Even before the ...

THE JAPAN FOUNDATION, Manila made dreams come true on Feb. 22 and let an audience at the Shangri-La Plaza experience a night with geiko and maiko (better known here as geisha, but Kyoto, Japan’s ...

This is Uhuburg, also known as Eagle Owl Castle, and it’s as real as the lederhosen-clad tourists wandering the streets of ...

We drove from New England down to Florida. My grandfather died six months after the trip, but the memories will always be with me.

Each week we pay tribute to the loved ones remembered in our area with a funeral notice and online tribute page. To read the ...