A study on rats raised on a high-fat diet found that these rats gained weight, experienced metabolic changes, and developed ...

Rat and human lives have long intersected, but there's little relatively little research about them. Thanks to advances in ...

Peppermint oil is “effective” at keeping rats and mice away because they dislike the smell of menthol. When mice come across the scent of this essential oil, they “associate it with danger and fear”.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Despite new sanitation rules implemented as part of Mayor Eric Adams’ ongoing “War on Rats,” thousands of New Yorkers, and hundreds of Staten Islanders, have reported ...

It feels totally counterintuitive, in many ways, to think of people being better supported inside prison than on the outside; ...

Residents have said they fear the rat population in Ipswich could increase if black bin collections are reduced to once every three weeks. Councils across Suffolk are setting out major changes to the ...

Wong et al. (2019) used a sensory preconditioning protocol to examine how sensory and fear memories are integrated in the rat medial temporal lobe. In this protocol, rats integrate a sound-light ...

Residents have said they fear the rat population in Ipswich could increase if black bin collections are reduced to once every three weeks. Councils across Suffolk are setting out major changes to ...

A six-month-old baby was found covered in blood with bone exposed after being brutally attacked and bitten more than 50 times by rats. The infant, who was resting in a bassinet in his parents ...