Karin Brulliard reports on a study of cats’ facial expressions in Cats do have facial expressions, but you probably can’t read them: Cats have a reputation for being “inscrutable,” the researchers say, and their results mostly back up this notion. More than 6,000 study participants in 85 countries, the vast majority of them cat owners,…

Caitlin O’Kane reports Cats actually do get attached to their owners, study says: “Dog people” and “cat people” have long debated which pet is better. A new study is putting one preconceived notion about stand-offish felines to bed. The study published in Current Biology dug deep into cats’ sometimes misunderstood relationships with humans, and found the…

Karin Bruillard reports Catcam videos reveal cats don’t sleep all day. (Just some of it.): What does a cat do when nobody’s looking? One way to find out is to set up a pet cam to spy on kitty at home. Another way is to put little video cameras on cats’ collars, set the animals…

  View this post on Instagram   BUB sees stuff that we don’t. #lilbub #scienceandmagic #goodjobbub A post shared by Lil BUB (@iamlilbub) on Feb 21, 2019 at 1:53pm PST Karin Bruillard reports Scientists have finally discovered what makes celebrity cat Lil Bub so ‘magical’: Lil Bub is a kitten-size cat with 2 million Instagram followers,…