Rats don’t always have the best reputations, but a rat called Ronin with a super sense of smell is working to change that.

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On Pearl Street in Lower Manhattan, brown rats scamper between their home under a tree grille and a pile of rubbish bags full of food waste. Lighting his shot to blend with the glow of the street ...

8%, Staten Island fell 2% and Manhattan saw a11.5% drop between 2023 and 2024 — all while the city launched the containerization effort, a “Rat Pack” and even held a National Urban Rat Summit.

For more than a decade, Collingwood's notorious 'Rat Pack' baulked umpteen media requests for a group interview. And who could blame them, given the endless fascination with their nocturnal exploits.

The rat is the preferred model organism in many fields of biomedicine, such as toxicology testing. But when it comes to disease models, rats have been upstaged by mice, which traditionally were ...