The researchers find that "trunk rotation during air-righting in cats occurs sequentially, with the anterior trunk rotating ...

A team at Yamaguchi University in Japan has identified a mechanical property of the feline spine that helps explain how cats can rotate midair to land on their feet. Their peer-reviewed study, ...

Cats' gravity-defying pivots mid-fall just got a clear scientific explanation. Researchers at Japan's Yamaguchi University say the secret lies in a spine that doesn't bend the same way from front to ...

Why do falling cats always seem to land on their feet? Scientists have been arguing about the precise mechanism for a very long time—since at least 1700, in fact—conducting all manner of experiments ...

Cats are renowned for always landing on their feet. While that’s not entirely true, “cat physics” sounds like an oxymoron. Scientific laws don’t appear to apply to animals that can squeeze into ...

Cats are innate masters of physics. They can leap extraordinary distances to climb things or while hunting. They have split second reflexes to catch their prey. And apparently, they can’t get enough ...

Anyone who has owned a cat knows they are interesting creatures. In the domestic setting the cat adapts to human company and engages the in the types of behaviors readily screened on social media (the ...

The cat seems to be doing the same thing a Slinky (just in case: a flexible coil of wire sold as a toy) can do. Within the first second, the top of the Slinky falls while the bottom remains still ...