TL;DR: Rats named Carmack and Romero, previously trained to play DOOM, have advanced their skills by learning to shoot the in-game weapon using a new trigger mechanism. This breakthrough highlights ...

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If you think laughter and comedy are reserved strictly for humans, you’d be wrong. A study in the late 1990s showed that ...

The long-standing experiment that aims to teach rats how to play the game Doom II has reached another milestone: The rats can now shoot down their demonic enemies. The idea is to see if it's possible ...

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 Berlin's ...

Apparently rats like to play games, and not ones just to scare you. Scientists in Germany put rats to the test. One scientist would put a rat in a box to indicate the rat he would be looking for the ...

How important is play to an animal like a rat? It could be as essential as taking a breath. When scientists removed rats’ cerebral cortex, the brain area that governs higher cognition, the animals ...

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 ...