Skip the bait and traps, and try this lawn maintenance task to keep rats and mice out of the yard instead. It's cheap, easy, and likely a chore you already do.

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Boston rats call all night at pitches humans can’t hear. AI is helping Northeastern scientists figure out what they’re saying ...

Researchers found that the solitary rodents build structures weighing up to 48 kilograms, with tunnels, chambers and basking ...

Greenhill Humane Society is caring for over 120 rats rescued from two SUVs in Eugene and needs community support.

A decade after scientists discovered that lab rats will rescue a fellow rat in distress, but not a rat they consider an outsider, new UC Berkeley research pinpoints the brain regions that drive rats ...

Few things are more annoying than leaving your house only to find your trash can tipped over, its contents half-eaten and ...

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. We crafted our first rodent car from a plastic cereal container. After trial and error, my colleagues and I found ...