Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

HERKIMER, N.Y. — At 6:35 a.m., under a blood-red sky, 1,075 pigeons sip water in a ventilated trailer in the Wal-Mart parking lot before the Greater Boston Homing Pigeon Concourse race to Boston. They ...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) encompasses various intestinal inflammatory features, ranging from granulomatous, transmural inflammation that is present throughout the gut (in Crohn's disease) to ...

From the summit of Mauna Kea, nearly 14,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean, the Milky Way tilts luminously across the night sky, an edge-on view of our galaxy. Parts of the great disk are obscured by ...

Robert Sackstein (Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA) and colleagues report in the June 11 issue of The Journal of Cell Biology that a sugar-coated variant of a protein called CD44 acts as the homing ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Experienced homing pigeons were released at sites unfamiliar to them and with magnetic and gravity anomalies as well as in areas with rather ...

Prairie voles are role models for monogamy. Unlike most other mammals these adorable, mouselike creatures typically mate for life, raising their young together and spending time cuddling in their home ...