Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

A winter bird count links tradition, science and climate data — with one cold day ending in a rare snowy owl sighting.

SEATTLE – If it weren’t for passionate people, this would be a dull world. Peter Cavanagh of Lopez Island, Washington, certainly qualifies in the passionate category, having taken 600,000 photos in ...

Starlings seem to have nothing in common with quantum matter. But the equations explaining some of the quantum dynamics of superfluid helium may describe what happens when a flock of starlings makes a ...

For years, scientists have tried to crack a mathematical mystery: Is there an equation that can perfectly describe each and every bird egg? Variable shell shapes complicated things. But it turns out ...

Aug. 11 (UPI) --In a new study, researchers in Britain used math models developed by famed mathematician Alan Turing to figure out why flocks of long-tailed tits separate themselves into different ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Fifth-grade students at Staten Island Academy, Dongan Hills, are learning math, science and technology in an innovative way -- incorporating avian ecology and ornithology into ...

ST. MICHAELS — Students in Christopher Renaud’s sixth grade at St. Michaels Elementary School created birdhouses in a service learning club. The students used math skills to determine how large to ...