Let Your Inner Nerd Say Awww

Another tale of physicists tromping into the biology department:

It has taken four highly qualified engineers and a bunch of integral equations to figure it out, but we now know how cats drink. The answer is: very elegantly, and not at all the way you might suppose.

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The five-minute sidebar video is delightfully dorky. And there's a great bit at the end about how they got more data.

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