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 ...

New York City’s rat problem has invaded TikTok after sparking a new meme. Pests have always been a problem in the Big Apple but the pandemic seemed to usher in a new era of rat prosperity. In October, ...

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: ...