A cat’s purr carries a consistent vocal signature, while meows evolved to be flexible tools for interacting with humans. A new study led by scientists at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and the Unive ...

We look at the uniquely American animosity toward artificial intelligence. By Evan Gorelick I’m a writer for this newsletter. Technological change can be unsettling. Industrialization brought a moral ...

This Pew Research Center report examines religious switching in the United States, including the reasons people give for staying in or leaving their childhood religion. It also looks at social and ...

Most of the time, when cats purr, it conveys happiness, but it can also be triggered by fear and stress. Purring is also likely used by cats to convey appeasement. It is a form of communication used ...

I am lucky to have taken some incredible trips, including a recent one to “the end of the earth”: the island of Tierra del Fuego, the southernmost point of South America. In a week, we traveled by ...

Bleeding occurs when trauma damages a blood vessel. When that trauma involves your head—whether the scalp, skull, or brain—it’s considered a head injury. These head injuries range in severity from a ...

What does it mean to be “smart” or “dumb”? Few questions are more deceptively complex. Most of us have strong opinions about what those words mean, but scratch the surface and it becomes clear that ...

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Cats sleep a lot. According to modest estimates, between 12 and 16 hours a day, that's most of what they do. Probably every cat owner knows this. However, a new study, published in the journal Current ...

In Natrona Heights, you can call this space off Union Avenue the "purr-fect" place for cats to find help, especially for cats that people have neglected or abandoned on the street. Through the ...