It turns out there's more to cat litter than you think. It can soak up urine, but it's just as good at absorbing radioactive material. "It actually works well both in the home litter box as well ...

A cat named Bailey was excited to learn he had been exposed to radioactive sewage on a recent vacation in Japan. “Most cats would be a little freaked out to know they were radioactive,” says ...

Is cat litter really radioactive? The quantity of radiation in cat litter—and all of the other consumer products listed above—is small enough that it poses no risk for either humans or their pets.

In the hypothetical experiment, which the physicist devised in 1935, a cat is placed in a sealed box along with a radioactive sample, a Geiger counter and a bottle of poison. If the Geiger counter ...

The Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger laid out a famous thought experiment, involving a cat that’s sealed in a steel chamber with a small amount of a radioactive substance. If one of the ...