Rats have been asked to do a lot in the name of science. Researchers had them complete mazes, solve puzzles, wear makeup, demonstrate empathy, and take on many other less-savory responsibilities ...

Whether the two-dozen or so performers and musicians actually call New York home is left unaddressed, but several of them are costumed as pizza rats (well, two pizza rats, one gamine pizza mouse ...

After we published our research, the story of driving rats went viral in the media.The project continues in my lab with new, improved rat-operated vehicles, or ROVs, designed by robotics professor ...

Gig workers expressed that, after noticing frequent changes on the listing platforms that were made without their consent, they started to see themselves as laboratory rats rather than valued users.

We crafted our first rodent car from a plastic cereal container. After trial and error, my colleagues and I found that rats could learn to drive forward by grasping a small wire that acted like a ...

As expected, rats housed in enriched environments—complete with toys, space and companions—learned to drive faster than those in standard cages. This finding supported the idea that complex ...

A new variant of the Remcos RAT malware, capable of taking complete control over a victim’s device, has been uncovered in a recent phishing campaign targeting Windows users. Discovered by Fortinet’s ...

Discovering a rat infestation in a restaurant is nothing new. But it still makes many grimace in disgust. Remember the rodent that fell from the ceiling of the Tangs Market Food Court? This time, a ...

Giant African rats may soon be the key to fighting illegal wildlife trafficking. New research from nonprofit APOPO, published Oct. 29, shows that African giant pouched rats can be trained to ...

We crafted our first rodent car from a plastic cereal container and quickly found that rats could learn to drive forward by grasping a small wire that acted like a gas pedal. Before long ...

A Morrisons supermarket was forced to shut its doors after a council slapped them with a hygiene notice amid stories of a supposed rat infestation. The Chingford branch was found to have an ...

Though the original upload to that site no longer exists for Pope Rat, the Tumblr [2] page Crappy Taxidermy posted the original image on August 1st, 2010, to their blog. The post has been reblogged ...