Thursday, January 31, 2013 - 7:07pm
Homing pigeons can find their way home from over a thousand km away, thanks to magnetic fields, the sun, and extreme low-frequency sounds.
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Thursday, December 13, 2012 - 3:52pm
Gerard and Anne McGrath are a married couple from Dublin, Ireland that could photograph anything and make it look good. But, their pictures of seagulls are over-the-top gorgeous examples of long exposure photography. Who knew seagulls could look so elegant?
Tuesday, November 6, 2012 - 3:03pm
Taking pictures of birds is about to get a lot easier than frantically running after them with the biggest telephoto lens you can steal: now on Kickstarter is a remote controlled bird photo booth that lets you take spectacular bird pictures without having to work for it.
Monday, October 15, 2012 - 1:26pm
Birds have been doing this whole flying thing long before airplanes got in the game, but for some reason, it seems like the U.S. Air Force has been slow to pick up on what geese (and other birds) have been showing us for decades: flying in a formation that "surfs" on vortices can save substantial amounts of energy. Now, the USAF will check it out with a new project called $AVE.
Thursday, January 6, 2011 - 6:00am
As this rufous hummingbird hovers, laser-illuminated olive oil droplets show the resulting wake and yellow vectors reveal air velocity.
Thursday, February 4, 2010 - 10:50am
What happens when you lock a flock of 40 zebra finches into a closed museum space with a couple of live Gibson Les Paul electric guitars and other various musical instruments? Some might call it music, but unless these birds...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 1:02pm
Waking up in the morning to go to work sucks, so you really need any help you can get to help you get up on the right side of the bed. This Okko alarm clock tries valiantly, but I'm not...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - 8:43am
Spring is only 10 days away, so it's time to start thinking about ... solar birdhouses? When we heard the telltale chirp of the first robin of the year yesterday, the last thing on our minds was to nail up...
Friday, February 27, 2009 - 10:51am
Forget cleaning up after yourself after slicing up a loaf of bread — that's for the birds. Turkish Spanish designer Curro Claret built this cutting board himself, drilling a few holes in some butcherblock, and then installing a tube that...
Tuesday, March 4, 2008 - 12:44pm
Birds and airports don't mix. I mean, yes, both are based around taking to the skies, but birds have a pesky way of splattering on windshields and getting sucked into jet engines that can cause a serious number of problems....
