One study found that rats emitted ultrasonic vocalizations when they were subjected to manual somatosensory stimulation, i.e., tickling. The results of this controversial research were published in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. histological image shows a cross section of a rat's brain, depicted in red, with a glowing green blob on the top right side; the ...

Researchers at Tohoku University and Future University Hakodate have trained cultured rat cortical neurons to perform real-time machine learning tasks, producing complex temporal patterns including ...

Have you heard the one about the rat who got lost? Probably not, because rats don’t need to ask directions. Jokes aside, it is well-established in scientific research circles that rats have an amazing ...

Sixteen female rats are heading out into the real world after life at college. That is, their life as study subjects. These rats may not have earned degrees of their own, but they helped other ...

If you think laughter and comedy are reserved strictly for humans, you’d be wrong. A study in the late 1990s showed that creatures like rats emit ultrasonic vocalizations while playing with or ...