Cats are renowned for always landing on their feet. While that’s not entirely true, “cat physics” sounds like an oxymoron. Scientific laws don’t appear to apply to animals that can squeeze into ...

Cats may not actually have nine lives, but sometimes, they act totally mystical. Just look at how cats always land on their ...

Learn more about cats' innate righting reflex. You’ve likely heard that cats always land on their feet, but while felines have extraordinary gravity-defying abilities, they don’t always safely nail ...

Researchers used high-speed cameras and motion tracking to show the air-righting reflex relies on spine flexion, front and rear body rotation, and tail adjustments that conserve zero angular momentum ...

The animal kingdom is fertile ground for roboticists looking to improve on their designs, with everything from insects, fish, seahorses, jellyfish, caterpillars, snakes and birds providing inspiration ...