CHICAGO (CBS) --A community garden in the West Loop has been closed over neighbors' concerns about rats and weeds. Cell phone video posted on social media shows rats clinging to the leaves of the ...

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 ...

Rats are smart little critters. They can use tools, recognize emotion in their buddies’ faces and, famously, navigate mazes. Now, a study published in Behavioral Brain Research has highlighted yet ...

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 ...

There's the rat race, and then there are these lab rats who learned to drive tiny cars. WIRED's Matt Simon talked with neuroscientist Kelly Lambert about what her driving rodent experiment can teach ...

The poll asked hundreds of Chicago residents about the frequency of rat sightings in their homes and neighborhoods along with their reactions to rodents. Forty-three percent of the people polled said ...

City data actually suggest that rat sightings are declining. But horror stories are everywhere, and a single rat in a stroller is enough to set off a panic. By Christopher Maag Rachel Chase, a ...

The house was full at the Reagan Federal Building auditorium for Sun Microsystems’ quarterly “Network Computing” road show—which is what happens every time someone mentions a free lunch in Washington.