“Tropical parasites in our food? No way!” most Americans think. It’s time to think again. In May Hawaii’s Department of Health announced three more cases of rat lungworm in recent visitors. Already ...

We crafted our first rodent car from a plastic cereal container. After trial and error, my colleagues and I found that rats could learn to drive forward by grasping a small wire that acted like a gas ...

While rats are generally perceived as filthy, hungry and seedy, they are also portrayed in popular culture as resourceful and ambitious — for example, take the pizza rat videos from the New York ...

New research from Cairo shows that rats become more belligerent when exposed to gasoline fumes and tailpipe pollution. If the same thing happens to humans, that might explain why the guy in the ...

Rats perceive the world with a complexity that modern artificial neural networks struggle to match. This is the finding of a recent study published in the journal Patterns by the Visual Neuroscience ...

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. Somewhere deep in the Sierra, Muir’s ghost must be flitting through the woods in a ...

Yesterday I received a few holiday greeting emails and some people asked if I could please post something "short and sweet" (as Andy put it) about some life lessons we can learn from nonhuman animals ...

Aug. 12—There's no such thing as a free lunch, but fortunately there is such a thing as free theater performances for young children. The Children's Theatre Workshop is offering two free showings this ...