Whenever we go online, we might find ourselves part of an experiment — without knowing it. Digital platforms track what users ...

As a neuroscientist who advocates for housing and testing laboratory animals in natural habitats, I’ve found it amusing to ...

As well as performing better in their driving tests, the rats housed in a complex environment ... This fits in with other, ...

Unexpectedly, we found that the rats had an intense motivation for their driving training — something we wanted to learn more ...

With millions of mice and rats in US labs alone, scientists can learn a lot of information from their scurrying test subjects ...

Eight giant African pouched rats were able to detect four wildlife samples from 146 non-target items during this four-year ...

“Our study shows that we can train African giant pouched rats to detect illegally trafficked wildlife, even when it has been ...

Scientists stress out lab mice, a lot. Inducing chronic stress and anxiety in these furry critters is how scientists explore ...

F orget fictional Rodents of Unusual Size – for wildlife traffickers, there are real life giant rats to be feared, after ...

While the jury is still out on whether or not the African giant pouched rat is cute, it’s harder to deny the impressive power of its nose. Tanzania-based non-profit APOPO has already demonstrated the ...

It is unreasonable to turn Sabah into a “laboratory” to test the strength of political cooperation in ... is an indirect insult to Sabahans who will then be turned into “lab rats” in the experiment.

We crafted our first rodent car from a plastic cereal container. After trial and error, my colleagues and I found that rats ...