The AI model was able to eventually match the rats’ image processing capabilities, but only after using more and more resources and computer power to catch up. Though identifying objects in their ...

In the first study of its kind, scientists found a correlation between climate change and a rise in urban rat populations.

Another strategy is to add plants that rats find attractive—but plant them well away from the garden and house to draw the rats away. Rats are drawn to compost piles. Piles contain easily ...

After beginning as a cartoon rat drawn on signs, Scabby’s next phase was as a costume that “was notoriously difficult to clean … without destroying.” The final step occurred when one union ...