Last week’s explosion of a New Glenn rocket at Cape Canaveral, Florida, was clearly a setback for Blue Origin and NASA, but ...

Homing pigeons rely on a variety of signals to navigate, including magnetism. But it hasn't been clear how they detect magnetic cues. Researchers propose the answer may be found in the birds' livers.

In the first broad evolutionary analysis of its kind, Chloe Heys and her colleagues found that masturbation appears across ...

Stacey McCoy, William Bolin, and Shannon Klaus did another stretch on the Appalachian Trail. This year they were joined by ...

The birds might use the organs' iron-rich immune cells as internal compasses on overcast days, when they must rely on Earth’s ...

A study suggests pigeons navigate using iron-rich immune cells in their livers that can respond to Earth’s magnetic field.

A tank at a Garden Grove aerospace plant came within a crack of exploding and forcing a toxic chemical cloud over 50,000 ...

The toxic chemical inside the large storage tank that was leaking in California is methyl methacrylate, or MMA.

I noticed that pigeons never landed in my garden after I started hanging up one natural item I was about to throw in the bin, and pest control experts also recommend this method. Pigeons can be a ...

Bones discovered at an archaeological site in Cyprus suggest the birds have been strutting around human settlements since at least 1400 B.C. By Rachel Nuwer People did not always look down their noses ...

Examination of pigeon bones from Late Bronze Age Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus indicates they were already semi-domesticated as early as c. 1400 BCE, pushing back direct evidence for pigeon domestication ...

Residents at a block of flats in Chantry have raised concerns about an ongoing pigeon problem affecting their day-to-day lives. In this episode of Need to Know for Suffolk, we hear from those living ...