GAITHERSBURG, Md.—Visiting the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is always immeasurably fun. The agency’s headquarters—a green and sprawling 234-hectare campus, just a ...

Project Pigeon was shelved in favor of another promising animal-inspired bomb. In May 1944 a team led by the National Bureau of Standards, including a Rad Lab research group headed by Ralph Lamm ...

Bad news all around, but especially for the pigeon. By Kyle Mizokami Published: Jan 19, 2017 4:07 PM EST During World War II, the Allies needed a way to make bombing more accurate.

It’s 1943, and America desperately needs a way to reliably bomb targets in Nazi Germany. What do we do? For B.F. Skinner, noted psychologist and inventor, the answer was obvious: pigeons.

The Lincoln Bomb Squad found a pigeon inside a box left near the Nebraska State Office Building on Wednesday. Skip to content. NOWCAST KETV NewsWatch 7 at 10:00.

He got a $5,000 check from General Mills—the cereal company, not the unfortunately named army officer of the same period, Major General John S. Mills, who was in fact a pilot and bomb squadron ...