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

Repeated knocks to the head are known to carry increased risks to our neurological health, but a new study has sought to fill in important details around what they might mean for the skull.

Like stressed-out humans, sometimes rats go looking for a little relief too — in the form of cannabis, a new study has found.And the experiment could shed light on why some humans gravitate toward the ...

STANFORD, Calif. -- For decades researchers have been peering into the human brain, trying to unlock the secrets of conditions ranging from autism to epilepsy to mental illness. But now, instead of ...

Urban dwellers in Washington D.C., San Francisco, Toronto, New York City, and Amsterdam might have seen rats scurrying across their cities — and they’re not imagining an influx. Rat populations have ...

A study published in Neuropsychopharmacology focused on cannabis-seeking behavior and found that rats with higher natural stress levels are much more likely to self-administer cannabis. The Washington ...