What prompted the idea for the course? I’m an evolutionary biologist who has spent my career studying the evolution of small lizards in the Caribbean. I’m also a lifelong cat lover, but it never ...

Pets were once dismissed as trivial scientific subjects. Today, companion animal science is hot. Max, a 2-year-old German shepherd, Belgian Malinois and husky mix, was rescued in an emaciated ...

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Physicists seem to be obsessed with cats. James Clerk Maxwell, the father of electrodynamics, studied falling feline s to investigate how they turned as they fell. Many physics teachers have used a ...

Schrödinger’s cat, the infamous thought experiment involving a cat that can be alive and dead at the same time, has been brought to life with qubits. Schrödinger’s cat experiments have been done with ...

So, how can a creature with bones move like water? This is the puzzle that scientists have unraveled about cats, whose uncanny ability to slip through impossibly tight spaces has long fascinated-and ...

From savvy toy-sorting pups to the feline that prowled homes in ancient China, these pet stories got us through the dog days of 2025. My dog nephew Moose doesn’t just love a frisbee — he joneses for ...