The new findings could have applications from improving veterinary treatments to even helping develop remarkable new 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, ...

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 ...

Researchers uncover the physics behind snakes that rise nearly straight up and balance on narrow perches with surprising efficiency.

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 ...

Woodpeckers are well known for striking tree trunks with remarkable force and precision. These birds deliver thousands of high-speed impacts per day, generating mechanical loads that would destabilize ...

Your options were either to have the baby and struggle to pay for it and school in a place where you knew no one, or to ...

On a quiet perimeter walk, the loudest thing in the field is often not your voice or your boots, but the gear you strapped on without a second thought. Hard edges, loose straps, and poorly chosen ...

Overall, Didymos is nearly 200 times more massive than its smaller companion, which explains why shifting the larger asteroid ...

Now we know we also changed Didymos's orbit around the sun, and we did so without even touching it. We knew the impact on Dimorphos − which is about 160 meters across compared with Didymos's 765 ...