What Robot-Driving Fish and Rats Tell Us About the Brain’s Ability to Adapt

In lab experiments, neuroscientists have trained goldfish and rats to drive robots. But these tests weren’t just party tricks ...
Yahoo

Your Consciousness Can Connect With the Whole Universe, Groundbreaking New Research Suggests

A RECENT GROUNDBREAKING EXPERIMENT in which anesthesia was administered to rats has convinced scientists that tiny structures in the rodents’ brains are responsible for the experience of consciousness ...
Local 12 WKRC Cincinnati

Study teaches rats to drive cars, and they seem to love it

UNDATED (WKRC) - An update to an older study that taught rats how to drive tiny cars found that the rodents seems to enjoy the journey as much as the destination. A team of neuroscientists taught rats ...
The Scientist

Some Rats are More Empathetic Than Others. Neuroscientists Want to Figure Out Why.

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