These underground rodents are the first mammals found to actively choose air with lower-than-normal oxygen levels. Their ...

The National Toxicology Program (NTP) concluded there is clear evidence that male rats exposed to high levels of radio frequency radiation (RFR) like that used in 2G and 3G cell phones developed ...

PULLMAN, Wash. — It isn’t just people – when given the chance, rats may also use cannabis to cope with stress, according to a study by researchers at Washington State University. Published in the ...

Some rats have long been resistant to poisons, Dr Clarke claims Tests are being carried out in Gwynedd and Powys to try and reveal the extent of poison-resistant so-called "super" rats in Wales. The ...

Ripples of nerve cell activity that lock in memories may have an unexpected job outside of the brain: Dropping blood sugar levels in the body. Just after a burst of ripples in a rat’s hippocampus, ...

Little is known about the effect of physical activity in early life on subsequent growth and regulation of inflammation. We previously reported that exposure of muscles in growing rats to IL-6 results ...