Whenever we go online, we might find ourselves part of an experiment — without knowing it. Digital platforms track what users ...

With millions of mice and rats in US labs alone, scientists can learn a lot of information from their scurrying test subjects ...

A fast and furious science-based game show for kids. The players will have to use all their intellectual, physical and team skills to win. Science has never been so exciting, funny or messy! Watch all ...

I’ve found it amusing to see how far we’ve strayed from my lab practices with this project. Rats typically prefer dirt, ...

The author describes several characteristics of the Nile grass rat that make this diurnal murid rodent an attractive laboratory animal. In the laboratory, Nile grass rats are clearly diurnal (Fig.

"I didn't want to believe that I was a lab rat being experimented on. But after a while, I just couldn't deny it anymore," ...

Their journey there had more wholesome beginnings: In the 1970s, Japanese children were obsessed with the cuddly star of the anime cartoon Rascal the Raccoon ... We almost had lab raccoons instead of ...

Some of the rats in the experiment had been raised in a lab, while others lived in "enriched environments" - that is, they had more natural habitats. The rats raised in "enriched environments ...

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This week’s episode 7 was probably one of the best of the series, as we not only got a great explanation for the fall of Black Noir (as told through kids cartoons ... as a lab rat, and Soldier ...

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