From carrier pigeons' purpose in both World Wars to canaries warning of toxic fumes, birds have lent a wing to help humans for decades. Currently, their physiology is being studied for human medical ...

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STARKVILLE, Miss.—On a clear spring morning along the Mississippi coast, Scott Rush, a scientist in Mississippi State University’s Forest and Wildlife Research Center, ascends over an open savannah in ...

Humans have a complicated relationship with the night. We schedule most of our important tasks in the daylight hours, reserving the darkness for rest, relaxation, and, on clear nights, wonder. For ...

Watching a volcano while it erupts or even while it is calm can be both thrilling and unsettling at the same time. The burning lava, rising smoke, and the force of the eruption remind us of nature’s ...

When birds dream, they dream in song. Or at least that’s what Gabriel Mindlin’s recent study of dozing great kiskadees suggests. And he’s devised a way to listen in (Chaos 2024, DOI: 10.1063/5.0194301 ...

There's a new camera above the bald eagle nest at U.S. Steel's Irvin Plant in West Mifflin. A tree climber went up to the nest and installed the new camera on Saturday. It looks straight down into the ...