A fully-automated rat maze could help scientists better understand how individuals cooperate, and how this process may go awry in the brains of people with disorders ranging from autism to ...

Set in the laboratory of world-renowned rat-scientist Paradox, Schrodinger's Rat combines an experiment in quantum physics with labyrinth-like maze challenges. Working through all the elements of the ...

As memory fades, people may have difficulty learning new things or navigating their surroundings. In an experiment with rats, scientists explore the role of the hippocampus in helping rats get through ...

Last week we were “shocked” to find out that Facebook has been manipulating the trending news topics in order to suppress conservative news. Now, depending on which way you lean politically, this news ...

Despite what movies like Blade Runner and Ex Machina might predict, the quest for supreme intelligence won’t come down to a competition between biology and robots: Instead, it’ll come down to a merger ...

It’s a piece of rat brain containing about 30,000 neurons and 40 million synaptic connections, and there’s nothing remarkable about it, except that it isn’t real. It’s a digital reconstruction—a ...