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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 ...

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 ...

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A viral image can make a practical design look baffling to millions of people at once. One mountain road loops across a dry ...

Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have conducted the most detailed simulation of the interior of stars and disproved a theory scientists have believed for 45 years: that stars switch their ...

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.