So Charvet and her colleagues have been gathering data from veterinary clinics and zoos, and launched an effort called the Catage Project that asks cat owners to submit data about their pets.

And it was Eme the cat that inspired Anxo Biasi, researcher at the Instituto Galego de Física de Altas Enerxías (IGFAE), to publish an article in the American Journal of Physics. In this paper ...

We only knew that she was cute, always wore a red bow and her head was maybe too big for her body. We vaguely knew she had friends — a frog, maybe? — and that she was a cat. That much was a given. You ...