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Cats rarely crash and burn, always seeming to land on their feet. But how? Researchers have uncovered the secret behind their midair control.

The secret to this acrobatic skill lies in an extremely flexible part of the spine that allows cats to twist in the air and land safely.

The saying goes, “cats always land on their feet.” Scientists have investigated the physics of falling cats since at least ...

For more than a century, scientists have been trying to figure out how a falling cat lands on its feet with such astonishing ...

When cats fall, they usually land on their feet. This uncanny ability to right themselves before hitting the ground has long puzzled scientists. Now, a team from Yamaguchi University in Japan has the ...

The new findings could have applications from improving vet treatments to even helping develop remarkable bio-inspired robots.

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, ...

A cat falls, spins quickly in the air, and lands safely on its paws. To us, it looks like a small miracle. For cats, it’s a vital survival reflex. This ...

A new study published in Nature Astronomy indicates that the dense, star- and dark-matter–rich environments around supermassive black hole binaries pack on the order of a million solar masses into ...

Abstract: We propose a novel solution to the rigid body localization (RBL) problem, in which the three-dimensional (3D) rotation and translation is estimated by only utilizing the range measurements ...

The Rock River Discovery Park is an outdoor play area that takes the learning outside, which is perfect for those days when your kids have so much energy you’re pretty sure they could power a small ...