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Pigeons have historically served as messengers for humans, but a Russian startup claims to take this to a new level—effectively “hacking” pigeon brains to turn them into biological drones. In a recent ...

Pigeons keep droning on and on in the sky, from one spot to another they map out expanses with just flapping. But in Russia, spotting a pigeon just doesn't mean looking at a bird, it means you might ...

Dashing the hopes of establishment Democrats, Trump’s interior secretary and ‘energy czar’ has adopted his boss’s excesses as his own. In the year since his confirmation, Burgum has given those ...

Plans to capture and cull feral pigeons across Malta as part of an initiative to control their growing population have been approved by the government, after a trial using contraceptive-laced feed was ...

While the company insists its mission is purely to serve utilities, logistics, agriculture, and emergency response, the potential to adapt the technology for military use is hard to ignore. Russian ...

President Trump disappointed the liberal press on Friday by nominating Kevin Warsh as the next Federal Reserve chairman. Even reporters at the New York Times couldn’t pigeonhole him as a Trump toady ...

Once, saying that a bird might be a drone could have got you a one-way ticket to the doctor's office - but these days the truth is stranger than fiction. A Russian neurotechnology company, Neiry, has ...

Birds have cameras strapped to chests and flight path dictated with a remote control Antonia Langford is a Freelance Journalist, based in Kyiv. She writes for The Telegraph, The Guardian, and The ...

For thousands of years, humans have trained pigeons to race, deliver messages and “spy behind enemy lines”, said Bloomberg. “What would happen if people could bypass the training and steer their bird ...

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17:43, Wed, Feb 4, 2026 Updated: 17:46, Wed, Feb 4, 2026 Russian scientists are developing chips that can be implanted in pigeons' brains for spying purposes. Under a project codenamed PJN-1, chips ...