May 2 -- They can run, climb, jump, turn right and left — all at the touch of a button. These aren't the latest gadgets in high-tech toys, but living and breathing rats — designed and trained to ...

There aren’t many times when you’ll be excited to see rats everywhere you look, but a new Walt Disney World attraction just might be the exception. A new Paris-themed area and its centerpiece ride, ...

In front-page headlines this month, scientists proclaimed the arrival of robo-rats: rodents with electrodes in their brains whose every move could be programmed by remote control. The researchers ...

"If you have a collapsed building and there are people under the rubble, there's no robot that exists now that would be capable of going down into such a difficult terrain and finding those people, ...

The Pentagon is developing live remote-controlled rats that eventually could be used to detect land mines and find people trapped in collapsed buildings. The "robo rats" have electrical probes wired ...