Squirrels may be fun to watch in the park, but keeping one inside is a different story. Their quick movements and curious behavior may seem entertaining at first, yet those same traits create constant ...

If you live near a walnut tree, there’s no escaping hearing the hard plunking sound of falling nuts this time of year. There’s also no avoiding the dark stains on the streets coming from walnuts ...

Last Word is New Scientist’s long-running series in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions, ranging from the minutiae of everyday life to absurd astronomical hypotheticals. To ...

DEAR JOAN: I recently found an almost ¼-inch hole in a drip irrigation line. I couldn’t figure out how it happened and my wife said it could have been a squirrel, of which we have many. After not ...

As the weather starts to cool, more and more people may find issues when trying to start their cars in the morning. And there may be an unusual culprit: squirrels. When a driver in Shaler, struggling ...