"Although cars made for rats are far from anything they would encounter in the wild, we believed that driving represented an ...

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

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

After trial and error, my colleagues and I found that rats could learn to drive forward by grasping a small wire that acted ...

New study introduces a simple blood test to detect early lung damage in cancer patients receiving novel therapy with antibody ...

A 2023 avian flu outbreak decimated a Caspian tern colony on Rat Island and spread to harbor seals, posing a new threat to local wildlife. A 2023 epidemiological study revealed that 56% of a large ...

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

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

A novel method of electrical stimulation to precisely control neural activity for sensory restoration exhibits improvements in visual stimulus reconstruction, enables efficient hardware design, and ...

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

Relying less on animal testing for new drugs and more on lab-made “organoids” designed to mimic the functions of human organs ...