He said, Come with me! Take Daddy’s hand. How all the stories begin. A large hand lowered, your small hand lifted. She isn’t sure, she admits, exactly what happened. Or when. She knows that she was ...

Our guest on today's show are one of the biggest bands ever to appear on World Cafe. They've released several multiplatinum ...

On a sunny June morning, in a bog outside Beluga, Alaska, I met a Hudsonian godwit. She had inky eyes and a long, slightly upturned beak that was pinkish-orange at its base and brownish-black at its ...

Cher and Carol Burnett, two of Bob Mackie’s longest collaborators, are paying tribute to the legendary fashion designer after his death at age 87. “My dear Bob has gone up to heaven,” Cher, 80, wrote ...

This cheery blue- or yellow-roofed feeder, from security company Netvue, was the first smart feeder WIRED tested, back in 2022. At that time, we gave it a 6/10 rating for its high price and wonky AI.

Findings on decline of species such as Arctic tern and turtle dove published alongside flyways pledge at Kenya summit One in nine migratory birds are threatened with extinction and 45% of migratory ...

Birds are drawn to lights, and more than a billion die each year after crashing into buildings, experts said. By Ishani Desai Nearly half a billion birds may soar across the United States in the next ...

Archaeopteryx is an icon of evolution and is often called the first bird. Scientists have long debated just how it took off from the ground but a recent study published by my colleagues and I has ...

As a kid, Jorg Massen would watch birds swoop and swirl overhead and wonder whether they were doing it for enjoyment. Massen is now a behavioral biologist at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, and ...

When birds are chirping, humans may feel a little more at ease. But some bird vocalizations seem to strike a particularly pleasing chord with human ears — and scientists are beginning to understand ...

The 'Sultan of Sequins' won nine Emmys and earned three Oscar noms. 'A woman who wears my clothes is not afraid to be noticed,' he once said. By Maureen Lee Lenker Bob Mackie, the nine-time ...

Thirty years after a US ornithologist first sighted a jocotoco antpitta, the foundation he set up to restore biodiversity is a model for conservation globally I have to confess that I rarely enjoy ...