With the right combination of the proverbial carrot and stick it turns out that people can train animals to do a shocking number of impressive tasks. Scientists, for example, have trained fish to ...

Swiss scientists have discovered how to train paralyzed rats to walk by stimulating their lower spines electrically and chemically to help them forge new neural connections. Their research , published ...

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 ...

A neuroscientist who famously taught rats how to drive back in 2019 has explained why she did it, what we learned from it, ...

People have a complex relationship when it comes to rats. For some, they are vermin, and the idea of keeping one as a pet is unthinkable. For others, rats are a type of service animal, good for ...