With the right combination of the proverbial carrot and stick it turns out that people can train animals to do a shocking number of impressive tasks. Scientists, for example, have trained fish to ...

There's not a hint of subtlety to any of it—from weapons like the "ratzooka" and "double-barreled ratgun", to battles at ...

You need to see this video about how a neuroengineer taught rats to play video games. In 2020, Viktor Tóth, a former Feinstein Institutes neuroengineer taught a bunch of rats to play a video game. He ...

(CNN) -- Rats can be taught to play hide and seek -- and they squeal with joy when they win, scientists have found. Both wild and domesticated animals have been known to play, but neuroscientists from ...

Andrew is a freelance writer from UK who specialises in video game news. He has written for What Culture, Rock Paper Shotgun, and PCGamesN. In 2023, he finally caved and bought an Xbox Series X. If ...

The next time you see rats scampering around in the subway, they aren’t trying to gross you out — they may just be trying to play hide-and-seek. A group of neuroscientists in Germany came to that ...

Puppies tussle in the annual Puppy Bowl. Kids start a game of tag in a schoolyard. Play has been observed and documented in many species — and not just in mammals. However, according to Dr. Michael ...

The old question of whether a given piece of hardware, no matter how unsuited it may appear to be, is able to “run Doom” has become obsolete. We’ve seen the 1993 shooter played in some form on ...

New research suggests rats are capable of learning to play hide-and-go-seek with humans—and they appeared to legitimately enjoy the game. Rats, as this new research demonstrates, just wanna have fun.

Forget about the toasters, for there is a new frontier in Doom trivia: training up rodents to wander its mazes and blow away imps. Take a bow Viktor Tóth, a neuroengineer who has been puzzling over ...

Source: A rat playing hide and seek. Credit: Reinhold, Sanguinetti-Scheck, Hartmann & Brecht It is not often that a paper in Science brings a big grin and just makes you feel good, so it was a ...