As you buy your candy for next week's Halloween, you might wonder whether they will look or taste different due to the recent ...

Rats as Pets Rats have co-existed alongside humans since very early in recorded history. As far back as the Edo period in ...

In the wild, a mouse or rat leads a precarious life. In the city, they dodge traps, poisons, and broom-wielding humans. In the countryside, they face owls, shotguns, and more poison. As Australia’s ...

A new field study into New York City’s rats found them to be talkative city dwellers with an extensive language for ...

Boeing's structural fatigue testing process involves using massive rigs and hydraulic actuators to simulate thousands of ...

The sidewalk imprint, dubbed “Splatatouille,” was thought to have been left by an unfortunate brown rat that met its end ...

Naked mole-rats are one of nature's most extraordinary creatures. These burrowing rodents can live for up to 37 years, around ...

Researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine have discovered a new way to regulate blood glucose levels using a ...

Gardening enthusiasts regularly encounter difficulties with pests like slugs and snails. Nevertheless, rats can pose a particularly bothersome problem for those who want to enjoy the peace of their ...

For decades, New York sidewalks were awash in piled-up black plastic rubbish bags, some of which doubled as housing projects for the city’s other inhabitants. “I’ve kicked bags of garbage in New York ...

Neil Marsh receives funding from the NIH and NSF. You might best know chromium as a bright, shiny metal used in bathroom and kitchen fittings. But is it also essential for your health? In a form known ...