“Amid such profound squalor and chaos, the mice forgot how to be mice. They ceased to breed, and their population collapsed,” ...

As the weather gets colder and food becomes more scarce, rats and mice are likely to come into homes to scavenge for food and ...

Trailing behind the fluffy animal, however, is a tail longer than the rest of its body combined, more than 6 inches long, ...

With millions of mice and rats in US labs alone, scientists can learn a lot of information from their scurrying test subjects. These animals may be small, but their contribution to current research is ...

It turns out the easiest yet most effective way to keep rats out of your garden is not with cruel traps or toxic chemicals ...

No less than 16 different types of nerve cells have been identified by scientists in a new study on the human sense of touch.

Highland deer mice and their lowland cousins ventured on a simulated seven-week ascent to 6,000 meters. By tracking how the mice responded to cold stress and progressively lower oxygen levels, the ...

Why do mice have tails? The answer to this is not as simple as you might think. New research from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) has shown that there’s more to the humble mouse ...

Researchers identified 16 distinct types of nerve cells involved in human touch and compared them with those in mice and macaques, showing both shared and unique traits.

New research suggests that it could be possible to separate treatment from hallucinations when developing new drugs based on ...

No less than 16 different types of nerve cells have been identified by scientists in a new study on the human sense of touch.

But for healthy mice, this test is a cakewalk. As Prof. Uusisaari explains, "most mice species are arboreal animals, living in trees. They have adapted to swiftly cross difficult surfaces like thin ...