Good news, New York! Your endless war on rats has achieved its first tiny victory, and all it took was discovering what the ...

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View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. “This was a really convincing paper using a comprehensive group of assays,” said Matthew Pamenter, who studies naked mole-rat biology at the ...

Looking at the few cities where rat reports are down may help in the fight against rats, Richardson and Corradi said. The answer is not more poison or traps, but prevention, the study said.

Including the rats. The United States’ most populous city has been spared the Upper Midwest’s extreme wind chills, not to mention the shock of record-breaking snow in the deep South, ...