Research in the late 1990s showed that not only do some rats laugh when being tickled, such behavior can be selected for ...

For the first time, clumps of human cells called organoids were fully integrated with the brains of rats—and influenced their behavior.

A politically charged reallocation of public safety resources that risks weakening law enforcement, undermining public trust and leaving New Yorkers in high-crime areas vulnerable is not a plan for ...

A study published in Neuropsychopharmacology focused on cannabis-seeking behavior and found that rats with higher natural stress levels are much more likely to self-administer cannabis. The Washington ...

At 18, Jamie Grohsong was living a dream many young athletes chase for years. He was a three-time all-conference shortstop, a Division I college prospect and a player who lived for the game. Then one ...

This PSA had social media clogged with one-liners. A whacky government cartoon warned Seattle residents how to deal with rats that might climb up from flooded sewers into toilets – but social media ...

In 2020, Hungarian software engineer and neuroscientist Viktor Tóth came up with a fascinating experiment. With the use of a bootstrap experimental setup consisting of a large polystyrene ball, a ...

Heavy rains have prompted public health officials in Washington to warn residents about toilet rats, a rare plumbing nightmare that drives frantic calls to pest control experts. By Amanda Holpuch ...

Washington health officials warned residents that heavy rain and floodwater could sweep rats into the sewer systems and up into their ... well ... toilets! The ...

WASHINGTON — A U.S. Space Force and NASA experiment lifted off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 at Wallops Island, Virginia Dec. 18 at 12:03 a.m. Eastern to test a new small-satellite architecture ...

A Rocket Lab Electron lifts off Dec. 13 (U.S. time) carrying JAXA’s RAISE-4 tech demo satellite. Credit: Rocket Lab WASHINGTON — A Rocket Lab Electron rocket successfully launched a technology ...