Rats

Fancy Rats: The Often Overlooked Pet

Gabrielle Leimon | Posted 29.04.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Gabrielle Leimon

I would say that rats make the perfect student pet. They're intelligent and easy to care for. If you're at university and you're lonely then they provide companionship and require such a small amount of effort in return that maintaining their nutrition and cage hygiene won't be time consuming.

'Inter-Continental Mind-Meld' Fuses Rats' Brains

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 30.04.2013 | UK Tech

The brains of two rats on different continents have been fused together to create one trans-continental nightmare digital organism, scientists have ch...

Scientists Invent Robot Rat To Induce Medical Depression In Animals

Huffington Post UK | Posted 16.04.2013 | UK Tech

A robotic rat has been built in the lab to torment depressed rodents. The Terminator Rat was created by researchers at Waseda University in Tokyo, ...

'There's A Rat In The Operating Theatre!'

PA | Posted 06.11.2012 | UK

A rat caused around 40 operations to be cancelled at a hospital after it was found in an operating theatre. Pest controllers were called into King'...

PHOTO: Picture of Rat In Deli Counter Goes Viral

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 04.10.2012 | UK Comedy

Things you don't want to see in the deli counter of your local supermarket No.1: a large rat eyeing up the cheese. However, as you can see, tha...

Could GM Maize Cause Tumours, Kidney, Liver Problems?

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 19.09.2012 | UK

Rats fed genetically modified crops suffered more premature deaths, tumours, kidney and liver problems, a worrying new study has found. The researc...