For millennia, humans have watched cats tumble from heights and land gracefully on their feet. It seemed inexplicable — or at ...

The saying goes, “cats always land on their feet.” Scientists have investigated the physics of falling cats since at least 1700, and a team of researchers has recently furthered the topic with a study ...

Cats, famously, land on their feet — whether leaping from rooftops, chasing shadows or tumbling mid-play. Whether tossed by fate or pouncing on prey, they land. Famously. On their feet. Has life ...

Landing On Their Feet Doesn’t Mean Landing Safely Image via Getty Images/yordanka caridad Cats do have an impressive ability called the righting reflex. It develops early in life, usually within the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: As any ailurophile—the unnecessarily fancy way to reference a cat lover—knows, felines have the almost supernatural ability to pull off a hushed ...

For millennia, humans have watched cats tumble from heights and land gracefully on their feet. It seemed inexplicable — or at least, it was a convenient myth. However, a new scientific study of cats’ ...

It takes backbone to solve an enigma like the “falling cat” problem. By Taylor Mitchell Brown In 1894, the French physiologist Étienne-Jules Marey tried to resolve a particularly vexing question in ...

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 ...