The complicated human relationship with rats is well-documented on social media — where wild, urban rats in cities like New York occasionally go viral for their consumption habits, audacity, or ...

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 ...

With the internet, society has been exposed to puzzling and exquisite animal behavior, while neuroscience has vastly concentrated on a few inbred animal models studied in trained unnatural settings.

Researchers at Stanford University have transplanted human neurons into rat brains, seen them mature into hybridized brain circuits and then used them to influence the rodents’ behavior. The work ...

Have you heard the one about the rat who got lost? Probably not, because rats don’t need to ask directions. Jokes aside, it is well-established in scientific research circles that rats have an amazing ...

Source: Zeynel Cebeci on Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0 license Most people don’t have a very high opinion of brown rats. These invasive rodents live wherever humans live, particularly in urban areas ...