The Hero Rats Project is training rodents to be sent into earthquake debris wearing tiny backpacks — so human rescuers can find and talk to stuck survivors. The innovative project is being worked on ...

Scientists have trained rats to drive tiny rat-cars to get food, New Scientist reports. It’s a more sophisticated task than a rodent’s usual maze or object recognition, which suggests that rats’ ...

They have proven their worth in detecting landmines but Africa's giant pouched rats have a lesser-known but equally critical vocation - saving lives by speeding up tuberculosis detection. It's all in ...

Anyone who's taken a SEPTA train before knows that rats exist in the stations. I tend to cringe at the sight of every rodent that moves around on the tracks, but one thought that never crossed my ...

You've heard the concept of the "rat race," but how about a literal rat, racing through the hallways of Doom? One researcher named Viktor Toth ran an experiment over nearly six months, seeing if he ...