Aneesh Sathe
On the rheology of cats
January 24, 2025
Probably the cutest paper you’ll read today.
The wetting and general tribology of cats has not progressed enough to give a definitive answer to the capillary
dependence of the feline relaxation time. Fig. 2b gives
an example of a lotus effect of Felis catus, suggesting
that the substrate is superfelidaphobic. […]
cats are proving to be a rich model system for rheological research, both in the linear and nonlinear regimes.