Why do we feel the need to care for things that are cute, like puppies and kittens? Austrian biologist Konrad Lorenz came up with his "kinderschema" or child scheme, which is a list of physical ...

There is plenty of fun and truly adorable stuff in “Cute,” a new exhibition in London. But there are some creepy and unsettling things, too. By Rosa Lyster The critic Rosa Lyster saw the show in ...

I once stayed at a friend's place to cat-sit and realized I was in love with her apartment. At first I couldn't quite figure out why, but it eventually dawned on me that it was largely because she ...

What is cute, or kawaii, to use the almost synonymous Japanese term? In 1943, an Austrian zoologist named Konrad Lorenz proposed that our perception of cuteness is based on certain physical ...