Young, na ve starlings are looking for their wintering grounds independently of experienced conspecifics. Starlings are highly social birds throughout the year, but this does not mean that they copy ...

Four Starling technology demonstration spacecraft, Blue Canyon Technologies six-unit cubesats, during a solar array deployment test at NASA Ames Research Center. Credit: the four swarm spacecraft ...

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For centuries, researchers have pondered how starlings travel in those gorgeous shape-shifting clouds. The answers continue to surprise them. A convergence of starlings swirls above St. Peter’s ...

Researchers at MIT’s Picower Institute found that rotating waves of brain activity help restore focus after distractions. In ...

Great efforts have been made to curtail the introduction of exotic species into the wild. One reason is because some become too successful, threatening the well-being of native species. Many plants ...

Superb starlings help care for the offspring of birds they are not related to. “To me, that sounds like friendship,” one scientist said. By Asher Elbein True friends, most people would agree, are ...

The starlings that make a noisy nuisance of themselves in many a U.S. town have been attacked with everything from stuffed owls to roman candles. They generally return to their roosts, loud and sassy, ...