The iNaturalist cellphone app not only helps users identify plant, animal and insect species; it also provides invaluable data to scientists studying biodiversity, species decline, and habitat loss.

Neuroscientist Erik Wing talks us through his new research, which reveals how birding can literally reshape the mind.

Familiar voices trigger stronger brain activity in zebra finches, speeding up how quickly they respond to calls.

The desktop apps for Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini used to confine AI to a chat box. Now they’re aiming to unleash AI agents on your PC, and that’s only the beginning.

Scientists reveal how oviraptor dinosaurs used sunlight and body heat to hatch eggs and why their nesting method differs from ...

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology Bird Cams allow viewers to follow the lives of birds around the world through public livestreams.

Seventy million years ago, a feathered, flightless dinosaur known as an oviraptor squatted over a carefully arranged ring of ...

Among the primary concerns surrounding artificial intelligence is its tendency to yield erroneous information when summarizing long documents. These "hallucinations" are problematic not only because ...

What started out as a response to labor shortages in poultry processing plants during the COVID-19 pandemic has turned into a robotics system that can learn by imitating human movements to handle ...

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Millions of birds invisibly migrate through the night sky each autumn, most flying in near silence toward their wintering grounds. Now, scientists have developed a way to see and identify many of ...

The birds in your neighborhood might seem like they fly around without a care in the world, but most avian species are actually cautious creatures. As every bird lover is sadly aware, our feathered ...