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Photographer Tim Flach’s new book is unusually personal: it includes images not only of his cat—a regal orange-and-white former barn kitten named Loki—but also of his brain, thanks to MRI scans ...

Cats famously always land on their feet. Well, almost always. For more than a century, physicists toyed with this idea, using ...

Cats have taken quite a journey from wild animal to undisputed ruler of millions of couches worldwide. Scientists long knew the broad outlines of that journey. As humans settled into agriculture and ...

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 ...

Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching. “The ...