Rats Develop Heroin-Like Addiction To Junk Food, Says Study

A new study out of U.S. shows that rats develop a heroin-like addiction to junk food. The study says pleasure centers in the brains of the rats get addicted to high-fat, high-calorie diet becoming less responsive,...

Cases of leptospirosis surge to 383

I have often seen rats in the Public Markets, recently infact 4 days ago I see a very fat rat in public view, obvisiouly not frighten by people. Nobadt seems to care and I have yet to see a rat catcher and any...

Scientists Make Paralyzed Rats Walk Again

Scientists at the University of California in Los Angeles have been able to return function to paralyzed rats using a combination of exercise, drugs and electrical stimulation. The study has important implications...

Meth Rats

In this episode, Lester and Charlie open their hearts to the forgotten soldiers in the war against drugs - Meth Rats

Windsor, Ontario Going to Waste

July 30, 2009 The Transformation Has BegunMowing, or should I say, threshing and baling of the tall grass in city parks, as well as garbage and recycling pick up has begun. It will likely take a couple of weeks...

Exotic Diseases in the U.S. May Rise

We know about Dengue Fever, West Nile Virus and Lyme Disease - but have you heard of Leishmaniasis Disease, Chagas Disease and/or Chikungunya Virus? Probably not, unless you've been to places outside of the U.S....

Albany River Rats Bus Accident Injures Three

    Three people have been left seriously injured as the AHL's Albany River Rats bus crashed Thursday morning. Three people were taken to the Berkshire Medical Center with "serious injuries" while...

Village Moves to Escape Rats

A small village in Northeastern Iran tried to win the rat race, but the rats won.  The villagers are moving. " The rats overran the village of Maskan in Khorasan province two years ago and have been leaving...

Pakistan Parliament in war on rodents

Pakistan is facing problems on many fronts. Country is in bad shape on economic front and constantly under siege from Islamic militants. Now they have got another kind of problem and going all out to eradicate from these menace.  The Pakistani Parliament House...

Babies boost mothers' intelligence

Contrary to previous studies pregnant women gets their brains rewired to cope with motherhood — and their intelligence soars when the tots are born. Tests on rats showed mums become braver and faster at finding food. And the increased ability could curb...

Rats!

Many of us have an aversion to rats while they are revered in some cultures.  Now even those who are sworn enemy of these rodents have to modify our stance.  The African pouched rat is currently being...

Orbiting satellite to help count California rats

"Orbiting satellite to help count California rats" FRESNO, California (AP) -- Scientists plan to use satellite photos to count Giant Kangaroo Rats, the first-ever monitoring of an endangered species from outer space. ...

Rats and a cat bodyguard recruited to tackle Colombia's land mines

One often hears the expression 'I smell a rat' but in Columbia rats are being trained to use their sense of smell to sniff out land mines. If that's not amazing enough they also have a cat acting as their...

Cattle shown to align north-south

"Have you ever noticed that herds of grazing animals all face the same way? Images from Google Earth have confirmed that cattle tend to align their bodies in a north-south direction. Wild deer also display this behaviour - a phenomenon that has apparently gone unnoticed by...

Indian state government encourages people to eat rats

Authorities in the Indian province of Bihar are encouraging people to eat rats as a way of reducing dependence on grains affected by rising food prices and reducing the population of rats."A state government in...

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