A MCDONALD'S restaurant which had rats in the food-handling area has joined a NSW government list of "named and shamed" establishments which have breached food laws. More →

n living rats, researchers found that animals dosed with other drugs that mimicked these neuroreceptor effects engaged in similar activities: intensive sniffing, biting and motion in their cages. In fact, when dosed with cocaine, the rats both traveled more broadly and more frenetically in cages that had been outfitted with a crisscrossing grid of lasers that enabled software to track the subjects' movements, according to Wang. More →