Boston’s airport has the highest known concentration of snowy owls in New England. Raptor researcher Norman Smith has removed more than 900 of the Arctic birds.

If the so-called black boxes survive a plane crash, why can’t we just make the whole plane out of the same stuff as the box? They’d never get off the ground. Planes are built of lightweight material ...

The black box of an airplane is a safety device meant to help determine what happened in the event of a catastrophic accident ...