Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The University of South Carolina in Columbia. (Tracy Glantz/tglantz@thestate.com) A series of experiments at USC involving rats, ...

Seven years ago, researchers at Stanford University started an ambitious experiment: They began growing miniature, simplified versions of the human brain from stem cells inside a lab, then later ...

Quick Take One study found that rats emitted ultrasonic vocalizations when they were subjected to manual somatosensory ...

People predicting the end of world generally make those predictions without scientific evidence to support them. So when an animal-behavior researcher ran experiments in the 1960s that described ...

Seven years ago, researchers at Stanford University started an ambitious experiment: They began growing miniature, simplified versions of the human brain from stem cells inside a lab, then later ...

Scientists have completed a brain cell transplant, combining lab-grown clumps of human brain cells with those of newborn rats. The experiment is disturbing, but there's a good reason behind the move.

You've heard the concept of the "rat race," but how about a literal rat, racing through the hallways of Doom? One researcher named Viktor Toth ran an experiment over nearly six months, seeing if he ...

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The National Mall will soon have something new: rats on birth control. The National Mall will soon have something new: rats on birth control. Under a pilot project set to begin in the coming weeks, a ...

When you hear a cover of a familiar song, you likely still recognize the song, even if it’s suddenly in a different tempo, an octave higher or played on different instruments and sung by a different ...