In a lucky break, the 36-foot sloop Oatmeal Savage with the Ventilly family aboard got the notification through the press, ...

A Macalester College alum and medical doctor who has spent decades trying to end the use of animals in scientific research ...

It seems not. Watanabe followed up with other experiments, first by showing the pigeons pictures that they had never seen before – and the birds successfully pecked at those in the “good ...

Petersen were posthumously awarded the biology prize for their 1939 paper bag experiment ... Nobel was for one of his lesser-known works: The Pigeon Project, in which he attempted to develop ...

A WWII project which involved training pigeons to pilot bombs has won this ... which involved more than 350,000 coin-flipping experiments totalling 650 hours and using 44 different currencies.

Winning research included pigeon-guided missiles, dead trout swimming, painful fake medicines and coin flipping. An experiment that trained pigeons to pilot bombs and another that explained how ...

Last week, on General Electric’s Science Forum broadcast, he described the pigeon experiments he has been doing for the Army Signal Corps. Yeagley began with the idea, not original with him ...

The study also found that reducing food available to wild pigeons could lower the numbers of chicks. Using the circuit breaker as a natural experiment, as dining out was prohibited during the ...

Pigeons have complex inner lives and experiments have revealed that they are even able to get their heads around concepts such as space and time – a surprising feat given that they don't have a ...

Next year, the project researchers hope to take some steps in that direction with preliminary experiments on reproductive cells from band-tailed pigeons. Even if the scientists end up with a brood ...

Additionally, the story has been updated with information regarding the joint forestry experiment and the positive potential for passenger pigeon de-extinction from Revive & Restore. The passenger ...