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Scientist at work: Revealing the secret lives of urban rats

  • Written by Michael H. Parsons, Scholar-in-Residence, Hofstra University

In an era when we can decode language among animals and design coatings that make military weapons virtually invisible, it may seem that there are few things science cannot accomplish. At the same time, we are surprisingly ignorant about some things that are much more ordinary. For me, perhaps the most intriguing example is city rats, which in...

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