A neuroscientist on lessons learned from teaching rodents to drive a mini-car. We crafted our first rodent car from a plastic cereal container and quickly found that rats could learn to drive forward ...
We hear from a Ukrainian refugee who says cold water swimming has helped her tackle depression and keep moving forward. Also: making fuel from washed up seaweed; how a community rescued a pod of ...
Teaching rats to drive a tiny car around a laboratory had some far-reaching effects – it taught scientists a lot about the benefits of anticipating the joy brought by the things we love.
This became our Wait For It research program. We dubbed this new line of study UPERs – unpredictable positive experience responses – where rats were trained to wait for rewards. In contrast ...
We crafted our first rodent car from a plastic cereal container. After trial and error, my colleagues and I found that rats could learn to drive forward by grasping a small wire that acted like a ...
The Alberta and federal governments are urging people to “rat on rats,” launching a campaign Tuesday to keep the province free of the destructive pest. For more than 70 years, Alberta has been ...
Prior to January 26th, 2022, an unknown iFunny user posted the second animation, set to the song "Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd and captioned, one rat (original post removed and no longer available, ...