"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 ...

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 ...

Poorly performing antibodies have plagued biomedical sciences for decades. Several fresh initiatives hope to change this.

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