From ancient arrows to hypersonic gliders, the story of missile technology is one of math, physics—and a bit of luck.

Skinner's Project Pigeon (Skinner, 1960) contains suitably high intrigue; it was a broadly unsuccessful attempt to train pigeons to navigate missiles and one of the earliest studies to demonstrate the ...

Skinner said pigeons could be trained to peck at a screen to adjust the trajectory of the missile toward its target. Project Pigeon was funded but never used. In 2013, New York conceptual artist Duke ...

It sounds like science fiction, but in the 1940s, B.F. Skinner trained pigeons to guide missiles by pecking at screens to keep them on target. While the project showed promise, it was ultimately ...

The Shillong Times first appeared as a tabloid weekly on 10th August 1945 under the editorship of Late Sudhindra Bhusan Chaudhuri. In 1958 it was converted to a Daily. Owing to financial constraints, ...

One of the most unusual honors went to the late psychologist B.F. Skinner, who was awarded the Peace Prize posthumously for his work on “Project Pigeon.” During World War II, Skinner proposed ...

A raft of awards have been handed out for really bizarre research including how some animals can breathe through their backsides. The annual awards “for achievements that first make people laugh ...

Awarded to the late BF Skinner, a US psychologist, for exploring the feasibility of housing live pigeons inside missiles to guide them to their targets. The project, which Skinner himself described as ...

PARIS: Mammals that can breathe through their backsides, homing pigeons that can guide missiles and sober worms that outpace drunk ones: these are some of the strange scientific discoveries that won ...