Teaching rats to drive a tiny car around a laboratory had some far-reaching effects – it taught scientists a lot about the benefits of anticipating the joy brought by the things we love.

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Prior to January 26th, 2022, an unknown iFunny user posted the second animation, set to the song "Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd and captioned, one rat (original post removed and no longer available, ...

We crafted our first rodent car from a plastic cereal container and quickly found that rats could learn to drive forward by grasping a small wire that acted like a gas pedal. Before long ...

Douglas County officials are asking residents in a South Omaha neighborhood to help reduce the rat population in the area.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Researchers at the University of Richmond trained rats to drive miniature cars ...

Rats have been asked to do a lot in the name of science. Researchers had them complete mazes, solve puzzles, wear makeup, demonstrate empathy, and take on many other less-savory responsibilities ...

Though the original upload to that site no longer exists for Pope Rat, the Tumblr [2] page Crappy Taxidermy posted the original image on August 1st, 2010, to their blog. The post has been reblogged ...

After we published our research, the story of driving rats went viral in the media.The project continues in my lab with new, improved rat-operated vehicles, or ROVs, designed by robotics professor ...

Giant African rats may soon be the key to fighting illegal wildlife trafficking. New research from nonprofit APOPO, published Oct. 29, shows that African giant pouched rats can be trained to ...