Inmates of the Chicago Industrial Home for Children at Woodstock were convinced last fortnight that a canary was loose somewhere in the building. Day after day they heard it chirp and trill. Day after ...

Life has a challenging tempo. Sometimes, it moves faster or slower than we'd like. Nevertheless, we adapt. We pick up the rhythm of conversations. We keep pace with the crowd walking a city sidewalk.

Recent findings that individual male mice "sing" surprised scientists at Washington University's School of Medicine in St. Louis, but it's something Moline's Jeanne Banfield could have told them a ...