It takes backbone to solve an enigma like the “falling cat” problem. By Taylor Mitchell Brown In 1894, the French physiologist Étienne-Jules Marey tried to resolve a particularly vexing question in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Linas Toleikis/iStock/Getty Images Plus) For more than a century, scientists have been trying to figure out how a falling cat ...

Where would physics be without cats? No Schrödinger’s thought experiment; no FDC Willard; no Cheshire cat effect in quantum realm; really, the entire discipline would be reduced. But cats without ...

When falling cats turn themselves the right way up before they hit the ground, they have a secret trick: a region of their spine that is exceptional at twisting. “We compared the flexibility of the ...

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, ...