These underground rodents are the first mammals found to actively choose air with lower-than-normal oxygen levels. Their ...

Ripples of nerve cell activity that lock in memories may have an unexpected job outside of the brain: Dropping blood sugar levels in the body. Just after a burst of ripples in a rat’s hippocampus, ...

PULLMAN, Wash. — It isn’t just people – when given the chance, rats may also use cannabis to cope with stress, according to a study by researchers at Washington State University. Published in the ...

New research from Washington State University suggests that stress influences cannabis use not only in people but in rats as well.