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, ...

Mumbai, Feb 14: The Bombay High Court has upheld Maharashtra’s reservation and rotation policy for Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) in local body elections, dismissing a batch of ...

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 ...

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 ...

When I joined the huddle of misfits on the blacktop — puffs of breath in the shivery morning air — I felt a small sense of victory. I’d escaped Dad’s inevitable wrath — the vindictive unpredictability ...

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 ...

Full-body MRIs are all the rage. Celebrities and influencers tout the benefits of such scans that could find asymptomatic aneurysms and cancers lurking in your body. Sometimes, they're life-saving.

According to the experts at Tarotoo, who closely analyzed the viral footage of Kim and Lewis in their VIP suite at the Super Bowl, the duo’s connection is “more than just a public performance.” This, ...