"Cats have been so understudied," said Elinor Karlsson, a geneticist at UMass Chan Medical School and the Broad Institute. "They're going to remain a black box unless something changes on the ...

Emily Anthes is a science reporter who writes Pet Theory, a column about our creature companions. When my husband and I took our cat to the vet early last year, we were hoping to hear that we had ...

“Flow,” a dialogue-free animated Latvian film made with open-source software, is keeping our domesticated friends riveted. By Esther Zuckerman One night shortly before the Oscars ceremony, my ...