Tourists won’t be the only thing hogging the Big Apple sidewalks this summer. When people think of New York City rats, they ...

Rats have a somewhat unfortunate tendency to enjoy living where people live. That's how a biologist tried to explain people's hatred for the rodents in a television news feature about rats gnawing ...

Off the coast of Mauritius sit a string of small, mostly uninhabited islands that once told a very different story than they ...

Scientists have transferred Alzheimer's-like brain changes to healthy rats simply by giving them gut bacteria from people ...

A rat first frees a cagemate rat and then shares food with it. Is this animal just as empathetic as humans? In an American ...

They’re winning the rat race. The Big Apple’s rodents are evolving to become smarter and stronger than their biggest predators — humans. House mice are genetically mutating to build immunity against ...

Rats are extremely playful creatures. They love playing chase, and they literally jump for joy when tickled. Central to this playfulness, a new study finds, are cells in a specific region of rats’ ...

A decade after scientists discovered that lab rats will rescue a fellow rat in distress, but not a rat they consider an outsider, new UC Berkeley research pinpoints the brain regions that drive rats ...

How’s your 2024 Bingo card looking so far? Does it have “rats find joy in driving” on it? Because the scientists who taught rats how to drive are back, and their latest research suggests rats enjoy ...

Despite their low status in popular culture, rats are social creatures who reward kindness. wildcat78 So maybe this isn’t the best time to break the news: Rats are lovely neighbors. In fact, some ...