Rat eye boggling: discover how evolutionary dental maintenance (tooth grinding) turned into a social signal for relaxation.

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 ...

Rat Czar Kathleen Corradi says although city agencies are on the front line, it's key for New Yorkers to get educated. Rats seem to be everywhere across the city, and agencies across the boroughs say ...

Harvard researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence-driven framework to track and analyze how rats interact in social environments, offering a new tool for studying autism and other ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A rat king displayed at the University of Tartu Natural History Museum in Estonia. Some have claimed that the phenomenon in which ...

Immune system changes in the pregnant body that protect the fetus appear to extend to the brain, where a decrease in immune cells late in gestation may factor into the onset of maternal behavior, new ...

When a rat you've never met before shows up instead of flowers Credit: Smithsonian's National Zoo/Flickr via CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED OK, here we go: I’m writing an op-ed to defend rats. Not a popular ...

Rats given midazolam, an anti-anxiety medication, were less likely to free trapped companions because the drug lessened their empathy, according to a new study by University of Chicago neuroscientists ...