"Pigeons in America" offers an unconventional side quest during this week's 250th anniversary events around Philadelphia.

The birds might use the organs' iron-rich immune cells as internal compasses on overcast days, when they must rely on Earth’s magnetic field, instead of the sun’s light cues, for navigation ...

In 2025, DiGirolamo and his colleagues published a study showing that even when radiologists outwardly miss a lung nodule and ...

Pigeon intelligence is well-studied but underappreciated. Recent research even showed that pigeons can be trained to detect ...

Pigeons are often associated with city streets rather than scientific laboratories, recent studies indicate that these birds ...

Pigeons and other birds can do it. So can sea turtles and spiny lobsters, moths and mole rats, gray whales and big brown bats ...

The immune cells are located near nerve fibers in the liver. That might be how they transmit their “magnetic sense” to the ...

Bird-mounted headsets and backpacks have revealed the surprising things pigeons do with their eyes when on the wing ...

When pigeons are flying through the air, they lock their eyes in a near-fixed position instead of moving them around.

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Pigeons are inspiring a new wave of AI for medical diagnostics. Researchers are studying how these birds process visual ...