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The Physics of How Cats Drink

Cutta Cutta, the cat of MIT researcher Roman Stocker, demonstrates how felines balance the forces of inertia and gravity when they drink.

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Pedro M. Reis, Sunghwan Jung, Jeffrey M. Aristoff and Roman Stocker

Denise Brehm

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