For the past four years an African giant pouched rat named Ronin has been using his sensitive nose to sniff out ...

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With their enormous cheek pouches and keen sense of smell, the giant pouched rat is making waves—not just in living rooms, but also on minefields and in hospitals. As a pet, it presents a challenge ...

Imagine seeing a giant rat as a welcome sight, the same way you greet a talented colleague at work in the morning. Coffee ...

After years of war in Cambodia, specially trained rats are now sniffing over thousands of square miles to detect any ...

"There's supposed to be seven, I think I found six," said Annika Bull, a 9-year-old participating in the Hermitage's Easter Rat Scavenger Hunt. "I tried finding a piano and looked close to it and ...

Panicked, Khalil and his friends tried to leave, but he stepped on a land mine and it exploded. His friends, terrified, ran to find an ambulance, but Khalil, 21, thought they had abandoned him.

Some consider rats, not to be confused with mice, as pests. Others deem them lifesavers. One African giant pouched rat in Cambodia is making communities safer by sniffing out dangerous explosives—and ...

Chinese-speaking IronHusky hackers are targeting Russian and Mongolian government organizations using upgraded MysterySnail remote access trojan (RAT) malware. Security researchers at Kaspersky's ...

Ronin and his fellow rats are aiding ongoing efforts to detect and clear some of the 4 to 6 million landmines and other unexploded munitions that lie hidden in Cambodia after years of conflict.