This will depend on the reader's own interests, but personally, I would have wished to see more about housing conditions and the impact of environmental enrichment on rat development and behavior.

Is rat sibling rivalry a real thing? When watching this video at first glance, you might think competing over food is typical ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a 3D imaging method to precisely map and categorize the social ...

Scientists at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus have shown that the brain can temporarily disconnect information about past experience from decision-making circuits, ...

The human cells formed connections with rat neurons and could be used to control the rats’ behavior. “It’s a very important . . . very cool study,” Yun Li, a molecular geneticist at the University of ...

The catalyst for the updated cognitive test was the rats’ behavior, which resembled eagerness and anticipation when Lambert arrived at the lab. In an essay written for The Conversation ...

said Kaylee Byers, a health researcher at Simon Fraser University in Canada, who wasn't involved in the study. Beyond the physiological factors that influence breeding, rat behavior changes with ...

On the East Coast, especially in major cities, rats are seen as a nuisance. On the West Coast in Portland, they receive ...

How stress impacts behavioral outcomes of traumatic brain injury (TBI) represents a major gap in knowledge. This oversight is ...

Beyond the physiological factors that influence breeding, rat behavior changes with temperature, too. If it's too cold out, the rodents tend to huddle underground—in basements, sewers ...