Sometimes a cat will fall out of a window or balcony—a byproduct, no doubt, of a cat doing cat things. If you have a house cat, your feline's propensity for aerial shenanigans probably doesn't worry ...

Falling objects injured three different people in three separate incidents I recently investigated. The common thread: unsecured objects above the victims’ heads. As in any falling-object case, most ...

Gravity doesn’t discriminate. An experiment in orbit has confirmed, with precision a hundred times greater than previous efforts, that everything falls the same way under the influence of gravity. The ...

In New York City in 2018, a cat reportedly fell from the window of a 32nd-floor apartment onto hard asphalt—and survived. After a two-day stay at the vet, who treated a collapsed lung and broken teeth ...

Have you ever wondered why a feather and a hammer fall at the same rate, despite their vast difference in weight? It’s one of the most puzzling phenomena of nature, and understanding it requires ...

This persnickety number determines the strength of magnetic fields. It figures in everything from motors and generators to audio speakers. Oh, and without it we’d live in eternal darkness.