Female Norway rats that receive help from an unfamiliar partner become significantly more willing to assist a completely ...

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 ...

Rats seem to be everywhere across the city, and agencies across the boroughs say the fight to eradicate them is far from over. More than 2,000 rat sightings were reported by the city in the Bronx ...

Animal activists acknowledged New York City's growing rat problem but blamed the rodent infestation on "disgusting human behavior" and condemned plans to kill them. "I don’t think any of us want to ...

The researchers injected the human tissue into the rats’ somatosensory cortexes — regions that receive and process sensory information like touch or pain. After about two weeks of training, the rats ...

Harvard researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence-driven framework to track and analyze how rats interact in social environments, offering a new tool for studying autism and other ...

Immune system changes in the pregnant body that protect the fetus appear to extend to the brain, where a decrease in immune cells late in gestation may factor into the onset of maternal behavior, new ...