Washington health officials warned residents that heavy rain and floodwater could sweep rats into the sewer systems and up into their ... well ... toilets! The ...

A VR experimental device for playing DOOM on rats was built by neuroengineer Viktor Toth in 2021. The initial version presented by Toth involved putting a rat in a harness and placing it on a freely ...

The United Kingdom is set to begin injecting children—some as young as ten years old—with puberty-blocking drugs in what the Daily Mail calls the first NHS-backed clinical experiment of its kind. Two ...

Watch the War Rats trailer for this action shoot 'em up game to see gameplay and the terrible enemies you'll face. Run and gun alongside your troops in the Great Rat War against the vile TechnoRat ...

New videos reveal the surprising dynamics of bat-rat relationships—and suggest how human activity is fueling these interspecies conflicts. A rat attacks a bat as it flies by in this still image from a ...

New York City is home to some three million rats, and learning how these rodent residents navigate and communicate is vital to understanding their impact on humans. A new preprint shows attempts to ...

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Here in New York City, we humans crown ourselves rulers of the five boroughs—but the kingdom is split. We cohabit with a parallel society that commutes along subway rails, picnics in parks and ...

MOROGORO, Tanzania — A man lies unmoving, slumped in the rubble of a simulated earthquake, as an unlikely rescuer approaches: a rat with a backpack. Whiskers waving, the rat breezes past garbage, ...

City data actually suggest that rat sightings are declining. But horror stories are everywhere, and a single rat in a stroller is enough to set off a panic. By Christopher Maag Rachel Chase, a ...

Dave Carlin has covered major national news stories and events in the past four decades including Superstorm Sandy and its tri-state impacts, Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina and Iniki on Kauai, ...

University of Minnesota researchers developed a 3D-printed scaffold that directs stem cells to grow into functioning nerve cells, successfully restoring movement in rats with severed spinal cords.