Warfarin is the active ingredient in rat poison. Random mutations in the genomes of rats mean that some rats in a population have a natural resistance to warfarin. This causes variation in the rat ...

An AI-powered robotic rat has made friends with a real rodent in a scientific breakthrough. The life-size robotic rat has ...

In one county in England, these "super rats" have built up such resistance ... It's a huge problem, but the pests are only following the rules of evolution: the best-adapted survive.

Professor Nigel Bennett and Dr Daniel Hart, co-authors on both papers and experts in mole rat evolution at UP’s Department of Zoology and Entomology, say the findings add to a long list of mole ...

“Will we see robot-facilitated and robot-inclusive memetic, thus cultural, evolution in those mixed biohybrid rat–robot societies?” The study is published in the journal Nature Machine ...