From the Pacific Northwest to the Deep South, these cities are rat hotspots — definitely not for anyone who hates sharing ...

From South Asia to Europe, the black rat reshaped ecosystems, fueled pandemics, and costs billions in crop losses.

The wrinkly rodent barely seems to age and appears almost impervious to cancer, heart disease, and mental decline. Can these astounding abilities be adapted for humans?

It’s not easy to spot a fisher. The nocturnal species, with its long, brown-furred body, rounded ears, and short snout, prefers to live a solitary life in dense forest. But sometimes, New Hampshire ...

We expel carbon dioxide as waste. Naked mole rats bathe their brains in it to prevent seizures. The unique animals thrive ...

Scientists are philosophers, explorers, data collectors and number crunchers. They are also storytellers, placing data within a broader scientific and societal context. How they tell these stories ...

A nyone who has even a passing familiarity with cannabis can tell you the munchies are real. Although it’s a phenomenon that’s well known to science, the research on it is lacking. Or at least it was ...

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there are still huge hurdles to overcome.

A woman was forced to cut back her beloved wisteria – after a council said it was causing a rat problem in her village. Katy ...

STEMart announces the expansion of its genetic toxicology capabilities with the In Vivo Rat Micronucleus Test services.

Muscle loss, or atrophy, due to inactivity is common after illness, injury, hospitalization or falls, and becomes increasingly frequent with aging.

Horses have a vocal trick no one fully understood until now. Scientists have discovered that when a horse whinnies, it produces two completely different sounds at the same time. One is a deep tone ...