Tuesday, February 12, 2013 - 11:37am
Soon we'll have to learn how to deal with humanoid robots in stressful situations, but until then there are a few furry test subjects that may offer hints as to how we'll fare under such pressures.
rats stories
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - 10:38am
Lil' Wayne once said, "Off the rat, he won't rat no more." Elegant as Weezy's lyrics were, he might be using "rat" a little incorrectly, since it turns out rats are predisposed toward helping each other (among other things). Rats, long known to be social creatures, will help each other escape from cages, and display actual empathy.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010 - 12:42pm
Say hello to the creepiest vehicle ever constructed: the Ratcar. The Ratcar, created by the mad scientists at the University of Tokyo, consists of a small wheeled vehicle that's plugged directly into a rat's brain. The rat can then control where it goes using only their thoughts. Yikes.
Monday, January 18, 2010 - 11:04am
Blogger Chris "MacGyver" Glass isn't bothered all that much by mice. What does irk him, though, is when the little guys disrupt a pizza dinner by scaling a chair and exploring the inside of his shirt sleeve. That's the kind...
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 - 3:05am
With a gazillion ways to kill mice — some stylish, some utterly, utterly erroneous — you'd think there was no room for a new mousetrap. Wrong! Built by a bloke called Jake Easton, the trap is housed in a beautifully...
