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

In New York City in 2018, a cat reportedly fell from the window of a 32nd-floor apartment onto hard asphalt—and survived. After a two-day stay at the vet, who treated a collapsed lung and broken teeth ...

For more than a century, scientists have been trying to figure out how a falling cat lands on its feet with such astonishing regularity. A famous scientific exploration of the subject was published in ...

How a falling cat is able to right itself and land on its feet has long been a mystery. Scientists have been trying to figure it out for more than a century. In 1894, a scientific exploration of 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 ...

In 1894, French physiologist Étienne-Jules Marey tried to resolve a particularly vexing question in science: How do cats always seem to land on their feet when they fall? Using the era’s rudimentary ...