Scientists have discovered for the first time that invasive rats on tropical islands are affecting the territorial behavior of fish on surrounding coral reefs. The new study, led by scientists from ...

Boston rats call all night at pitches humans can’t hear. AI is helping Northeastern scientists figure out what they’re saying ...

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 ...

A rat wrapped in cozy blankets gets a gentle pet from its owner, and suddenly its eyeballs begin vibrating and bulging outward. The reason comes down to a bizarre anatomical quirk that connects a ...

A recent study reveals that the presence of invasive rats on islands can lead to behavioral changes in fish living on coral reefs offshore. A team of scientists found that damselfish have larger ...

It’s all about the body language. A new AI method for tracking the social lives of rats may help researchers better understand the relationship between the brain and social behavior, with possible ...

Rats given midazolam, an anti-anxiety medication, were less likely to free trapped companions because the drug lessened their empathy, according to a new study by University of Chicago neuroscientists ...

Distinct, coordinated activity in large sets of neurons can predict a rat’s future behavior, researchers report. The researchers created a dictionary that links brain activity patterns to simple ...

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. We crafted our first rodent car from a plastic cereal container. After trial and error, my colleagues and I found ...