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They were loved by Charles Darwin, they build brilliantly bad nests and they even produce a kind of "milk". Surely, these facts are more than enough to foster a love for the urban pigeon ...

Rather than getting its water from impacts, our planet may have drawn in water vapour after the sun boiled it off early icy asteroids ...

The unusual properties of gallium have helped scientists to create delicate moulds that can be used to grow cultures of human cells resembling tiny blood vessels ...

Hope for a much-needed treatment for the common pregnancy complication pre-eclampsia has been raised by a successful test of an mRNA therapy in mice ...

From the first private moon landing to the first civilian spacewalk, Elon Musk's SpaceX helped drive a big year for private space flight ...

Rats of the sky? Pigeons are often the target of human ire, but there's a lot to cherish - or at least appreciate - in these scrappy survivors ...

Dog harnesses are sometimes claimed to reduce pulling forces on the leash, but an experiment found they have the opposite effect ...

People in multiple US states tested positive for bird flu this year, raising concerns about the pandemic potential of the virus ...

For millennia, Arctic ecosystems have stored more carbon dioxide than they release, but that has shifted as warming temperatures have boosted wildfires and melted permafrost in the north ...

The electricity required to support Silicon Valley's AI ambitions could contribute to approximately 600,000 asthma cases and create a $20 billion public health burden by 2030 ...