We crafted our first rodent car from a plastic cereal container. After trial and error, my colleagues and I found that rats could learn to drive forward by grasping a small wire that acted like a gas ...

WSU researchers found that rats with high levels of natural stress hormones were far more likely to self-administer cannabis ...

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Researchers have developed a robotic rat that is able to imitate rat behavior well enough to to be accepted by the real thing. The AI-powered robo-rats were able to have appropriate social ...

Rats with naturally high stress levels were far more likely to self-administer cannabis when given access. Behavioral testing showed that baseline stress hormones were the strongest predictor of ...

It’s easy to assume that the most surprising aspect of a research project where scientists teach rats to drive would be the mere achievement of getting the rodents behind the wheel. But the ...

Giant African rats may soon be the key to fighting illegal wildlife trafficking. New research from nonprofit APOPO, published Oct. 29, shows that African giant pouched rats can be trained to identify ...

While enormous rats might be many people's nightmare, these huge rodents could be a key weapon in the battle against the trading of illegal wildlife goods. African giant pouched rats can be trained to ...

OBJECTIVE: Studies, comparing several disease-prone and disease-resistant rat strains to elucidate the extent and severity of syndromes resembling human diseases are lacking. Therefore we studied the ...

Thousands of pounds of drug evidence were potentially affected by a rat infestation in the Houston Police Department's narcotics evidence vault, according to new photos and emails obtained by ABC13.

The menace of rats in government hospitals across Madhya Pradesh is fast turning into a public health nightmare. After shocking incidents from Indore's Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital and Netaji Subhash ...