In the late 1800s, more than a hundred years before smartphones and weather apps, a physicist discovered you could step outside on a summer night, listen carefully, and estimate the temperature with ...

Submitted photo ... This image shows a Carolina leaf-roller cricket. Tree crickets are rarely seen, but their summer symphonies are familiar sounds. Spending my summers in Mississippi, I remember hot, ...

On a warm summer night, when everything else grows quiet, the air begins to buzz with a steady rhythm. Crickets chirp from the bushes, from tree branches, from somewhere you can’t quite see. It feels ...