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For years, researchers scratched their heads over one question: how do small animals like cats create such a low-frequency rumble? Typically, deep sounds are the privilege of large animals with long ...

There is a satisfying category of question where something entirely familiar turns out to be unexplained, and purring belongs in it. The sound is known to essentially everybody. It is produced by a ...