In 1882, the French Naturalist Camille Viguier was among the first to propose the existence of a magnetic sense. His ...

Multiple lines of evidence suggest that pigeons sense magnetic fields by detecting electric currents in their inner ears.

Birds understand many sounds around them, from mates to alarms, and this hidden skill may hint at how human language first ...

For decades, scientists have known that only a few groups of birds—songbirds, parrots, and hummingbirds—can learn to produce ...

A cheery reminder of Minneapolis' most iconic public art: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen 's Spoonbridge and Cherry, ...

Larger 'bully birds' can scare off smaller species like robins and blue tits from your garden, but there are a few simple ...

Physicist Richard Feynman invented them to describe the interactions between real particles. This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space ...

It’s a bird-brained marketing campaign. A luxe Big Apple-based cannabis dispensary announced it would be launching a fleet of 20 courier pigeons to deliver gram-sized bags to New Yorkers — but the ...

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Dipangkar Dutta receives funding from US Dept. of Energy and NSF. A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic particles. What ...

A flight of pigeons flocks to the Barn Theater at the Main Entrance to UC Santa Cruz on Sunday. The theater was created in the 1960s by converting an old horse barn and served as the campus’ primary ...

Large clusters appearing on weather radars are likely massive flocks of migrating birds, not storms. A record-breaking 1.2 billion birds were estimated to be migrating in a single night during the ...