A few dark specks on a sheet, windowsill, or skirting board can make an ordinary room feel suddenly suspect. The reaction is usually immediate and deeply familiar. Disgust arrives first, closely ...

Scientists now believe aging may not be permanent — and in some cases, it might even be reversible. Experiments have already restored vision in old mice by “resetting” their biological clock, while ...

The little critters have a lot of similarities to the humans who despise them — you are far more genetically similar to mice ...

Neuroscientists have successfully reconstructed moving images directly from the brain activity of mice, marking a major shift ...

UCSF scientists found a precise way to turn on cancer-fighting immune cells inside the body. This more potent form of CAR-T ...

In African striped mice, the activity of one gene can dramatically change a male's parenting style, according to a new study ...

The space-faring mice spent about 28 days in those conditions before returning to Earth in April. Mortreux and her colleagues then analyzed the weight, strength and movement of the 23 surviving ...

Inside the growing scientific quest to understand what creatures with the extraordinary ability to defy the ravages of time can teach us about making human aging better.

LILONGWE, Malawi — Cooked, salted or dried, field mice strung on sticks are sold as a popular delicacy in Malawi markets and roadside stalls. The mice are hunted in corn fields after the harvest when ...

Each time Matthew Zipple, a behavioral ecologist at Cornell University, releases a mouse that was born and raised in a laboratory into the green expanse of a field, he is amazed. He transports the ...

When researchers “rewilded” lab mice to large, enclosed fields, even well-established anxieties in the mice disappeared. Image credits: Matthew Zipple. The millions of mice used in labs are extremely ...