A study in the journal Science argues that homing pigeons may read Earth's magnetic field using iron-rich cells in their livers, rather than their beaks or eyes. Researchers wiped out those cells in ...

Pigeons that had been injected with a drug to deplete their special liver cells did not find their way home until the sun came out. Christian Ziegler / Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior Pigeons ...

WASHINGTON, DC — Earlier this year, researchers at Anthropic made a remarkable discovery. Studying the internal mechanisms of Claude Sonnet 4.5, the company’s large language model (LLM), they ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Opposed to using AI for her software-engineering job, Erin Maus secured something of a miracle from ...

Few animals have fascinated scientists quite like pigeons. For centuries, homing pigeons have demonstrated an extraordinary ability to return home from unfamiliar locations, sometimes travelling ...