It’s not all about distance off the tee on the PGA Tour. Sure, players take advantage of ball and club technology to hit high ...

Dr Dave Dawson and Paul Roberts advise on how to combat pigeon invasions – but Nicholas Milton says we should celebrate these remarkable birds and David Jobbins suggests letting nature takes its ...

To the local people feeding the growing flock every day, they are ‘perfect’ creatures with beautiful plumage. To others, they are creating a Hitchcockian nightmare – defecating, stealing and spreading ...

Pigeons have historically served as messengers for humans, but a Russian startup claims to take this to a new level—effectively “hacking” pigeon brains to turn them into biological drones. In a recent ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Guilford County Animal Services and two Charlotte-area bird rescues responded this week to what they initially believed would be the rescue of about 300 pigeons from a Greensboro ...

Pigeons keep droning on and on in the sky, from one spot to another they map out expanses with just flapping. But in Russia, spotting a pigeon just doesn't mean looking at a bird, it means you might ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Plans to capture and cull feral pigeons across Malta as part of an initiative to control their growing population have been approved by the government, after a trial using contraceptive-laced feed was ...

Welcome to Stationery Week on the Strategist, where we’ve been obsessively researching and testing office supplies — everything from pens, pencils, and paper to task chairs. For more, head to our ...

The U.S. Navy's use of pigeons began decades before World War II, but the birds found their most critical mission during the war—flying messages from submarine-hunting blimps during a time when radio ...

I’ve been thinking a lot about shoshin lately, the Japanese word for “beginner’s mind.” I first wrote about it here, after learning the word from a guest on my podcast Fifty Words for Snow. My co-host ...

LIMBURG, Belgium — The Chinese businessmen arrived in the Belgian countryside driving luxury sports cars, ferrying translators and bags of cash. When they parked in front of Tom Van Gaver’s small ...