The rats reacted accordingly, tending to avoid pressing the lever in response to the tone and pressing it in response to the white noise. But when researchers obscured the light bulb with a piece of ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Rats feasting on your car's wires is a common problem in Chicago. But what can you do to stop them from attacking your vehicle, and what is the city doing to control its rat problem?

Animals, like humans, appear to be troubled by a Linda problem. The famous “Linda problem” was designed by psychologists to illustrate how people fall prey to what is known as the conjunction fallacy: ...