By Edmund Blair NAIROBI (Reuters) - Africa's giant rats have been trained to sniff out landmines and detect tuberculosis in humans, and soon they could turn their superior noses to protecting ...

Upinder Bhalla of the National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR, Bangalore, India, says that more precise tests can be conducted on rats, using specialised brain and nose probes. “In rats we ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Associate professor Don Katz sits in his modest office while a colleague makes a cappuccino next door. The small machine gurgles and churns and the smell of fresh brewed coffee ...

Giant monster rats have just forced a dozen families in Somerset to evacuate their homes. How giant can giants rats get? We looked into the science.

A rat’s nose knows more about your family than you might think. It seems that rats can identify genetically related humans by similarities in their body odour. Erin Ables and colleagues at the ...

Scientists have long known about the ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) mice and rats make. Beyond the range of human hearing, the exact purpose of these high-pitched sounds isn't certain. A new ...

Africa's giant rats have been trained to sniff out landmines and detect tuberculosis in humans, and soon they could turn their superior noses to protecting other animals by finding illegal ...