A 2008 study by Queen’s University Belfast found that cats are most engaged by videos showing prey animals performing natural behaviors. While inanimate objects drew some interest, human activities ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When she goes to the grocery store, Lilianna Wilde will sometimes go for the shopping cart from which everyone else steers clear, ...

To be an inanimate object must be, I fancy, a very uninteresting affair. Certainly, being one appears to have a disastrous effect upon the disposition. No one who has had any intercourse with ...

Whether it's Jesus in your toast or a man on Mars, many of us often spot faces in inanimate objects. And now a study has revealed how this phenomenon – called face pareidolia – causes people to see ...

Seeing faces in common objects is not unusual. You might have seen the “man in the moon”, or seen faces in electrical outlets or sliced bell peppers. A new study from the National Institute of Mental ...

Everything from the obvious items like shoes and hats to the more peculiar things like staircases and keys wears down with ...

CNN — (CNN) — When she goes to the grocery store, Lilianna Wilde will sometimes go for the shopping cart from which everyone else steers clear, the sad-looking one with the squeaky wheel. When she ...

Inanimate objects attack me. Doors, tables, chairs, toilet seats, vacuum cleaners, keys, wallets, tools, cars, and computers - to name just a few of my enemies - have it out for me. They sneak up on ...