DNA of the common black rat has shed light on the ancient spread of rats, people and diseases around the globe. Studying the mitochondrial DNA of 165 black rat specimens from 32 countries around the ...

New drug research suggests that teens may get addicted and relapse more easily than adults because developing brains are more powerfully motivated by drug-related cues. This conclusion has been ...

Seabird colonies on islands are highly vulnerable to introduced rats, which find the ground-nesting birds to be easy prey. But the ecological impacts of rats on islands extend far beyond seabird ...

A dramatization: New York’s infamous union rat prepares to devour actor Edwin Booth, one of the founders of the Players Club.Photo Illustration: Getty Images, John Singer Sargent Virtual Gallery.

Lately, there have been some unwelcome visitors to tranquil, toney Shipoke in Harrisburg. Often, after the sun sets across the Susquehanna River, rats creep up over the bank to feast on Dumpster ...

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Thursday marks the Chinese New Year, and 2008 is the Year of the Rat. The program honors the occasion with an audio postcard from freelance producer Mina Kim, who recently attended Chinese New Year ...

Lion dancers from the Philadelphia Suns perform in front of the Chinese Friendship Gate in Chinatown celebrating the Lunar New Year. (Jonathan Wilson for WHYY) Chanting 'rat, rat, rat' as they dance ...

He's treated like any other member of the picket line. When Mercer County electrical union workers line up to protest businesses paying nonunion wages, he holds a sign aloft and tries to get the word ...