I can take on a cockroach. If I saw one crawling around my room, I would be disturbed, but capable of disposing of it. Ethically, of course. But the few times that I’ve encountered a Cambridge rat — ...

Nut Club is chock-full of interesting songs, demonstrating the originality of the group known as Free Range Rat, as well as its intelligence and warmth. The band is composed of uniformly strong ...

For Lincolnwood homeowners who notice signs of rats in their yard – burrowing, droppings or dirt mounds – the village will help with abatement as part of a special program offered free of charge, ...

Agony is contagious. If you drop a thick textbook on your toes, circuits in your brain’s pain center come alive. If you pick it up and accidentally drop it on my toes, hurting me, an overlapping ...

Initially formed to explore the tone science of visionary bandleader Sun Ra, this collective ensemble orbits Herman "Sonny" Blount's world without falling into its gravitational pull. Journeying to ...

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If you see tiny droppings in the cupboard and hear scratching noises in the walls, it might be time to start looking at rat traps. According to the U.S. Census, mice and rats invade some 14.8 million ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. This winter, I had the not-so-glamorous job of collecting organ ...

Removing free Covid-19 rapid antigen tests amounts to prejudice against those on low incomes, one of the country's leading epidemiologists says. Until this week, people wanting to check whether they ...

There are always "surprises" emerging from studies of the cognitive, emotional, and moral lives of nonhuman animals (animals) and among the discoveries that received a good deal of attention was ...

Scientists investigated how social relationship strength and oxytocin receptor expression could underlie individual differences in helping behaviors. To undertake these experiments, the researchers ...

Where there are labor disputes, Scabby the Rat — in this case deployed by a local union in Chicago — will be there to call attention to workers' rights. (Justin Hicks) Acy Wartsbaugh, an organizer ...