{"id":97868,"date":"2019-10-26T11:03:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T18:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/scientists-let-rats-drive-tiny-cars-and-they-loved-it"},"modified":"2019-10-26T11:03:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T18:03:20","slug":"scientists-let-rats-drive-tiny-cars-and-they-loved-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/scientists-let-rats-drive-tiny-cars-and-they-loved-it","title":{"rendered":"Scientists let rats drive tiny cars, and they loved it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MIKt2NdZ_3c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of scientific studies are high-level examinations of the mechanics that drive our reality. They often involve massive collections of data that the average person couldn\u2019t even begin to parse, and a lot of times that makes them excruciatingly boring to read about.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/31629004\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">A new paper published<\/a> by the University of Richmond in Virginia is most definitely not one of those kinds of studies. In fact, it sounds like something you might want to just do for fun, since it involves building tiny cars for rats and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2220721-scientists-have-trained-rats-to-drive-tiny-cars-to-collect-food\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">teaching them how to drive<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vast majority of scientific studies are high-level examinations of the mechanics that drive our reality. They often involve massive collections of data that the average person couldn\u2019t even begin to parse, and a lot of times that makes them excruciatingly boring to read about. A new paper published by the University of Richmond in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}