Whenever we go online, we might find ourselves part of an experiment — without knowing it. Digital platforms track what users do and how they respond to features. Increasingly, these tests are having ...

To learn more about how environmental factors influence the cognitive abilities of humans, researchers have trained rodents to drive tiny cars. It may sound far out, but rats have similar pathways and ...

The data didn't make sense. Five years ago, University of Maryland researcher Alisa Morss Clyne was studying pulmonary hypertension -- a type of high blood pressure that affects the arteries in the ...

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Lab rats may have won the cage fight to become model animals for research, but psychologists once looked to raccoons as the stars for studying intelligence. Black-masked raccoons served as favored ...

The lab rat of the future may have no whiskers and no tail — and might not even be a rat at all. With a European ban looming on animal testing for cosmetics, companies are giving a hard look at ...

The rat pack at Millersville University is breaking up and named for Marvel. Comic characters are among 16 rats retiring from the psychology department, rat lab and up for adoption, we feel like the ...