Felines may not literally have nine lives, but this is one reason they sometimes seem to.

In 1894, the French physiologist Étienne-Jules Marey tried to resolve a particularly vexing question in science: How do cats ...

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 ...

Learn how variations in different parts of the spine allow cats to land upright.

The research continues, with a paper published in the journal The Anatomical Record reporting on new experiments to analyze the flexibility of feline spines. Over the centuries, scientists have ...

(Linas Toleikis/iStock/Getty Images Plus) For more than a century, scientists have been trying to figure out how a falling ...