In the wild, a mouse or rat leads a precarious life. In the city, they dodge traps, poisons, and broom-wielding humans. In the countryside, they face owls, shotguns, and more poison. As Australia’s ...

Scientists stress out lab mice, a lot. Inducing chronic stress and anxiety in these furry critters is how scientists explore the bodily and cognitive effects of stress and discover anti-anxiety ...

A good deal of scientific research shows that mice and rats are bright, sentient, and deep emotional rodents. Yet they aren't even considered to be "animals" in the United States federal Animal ...

In the late 2000s and early 2010s, neurogeneticist Vivek Kumar, then a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, screened thousands of randomly mutagenized mice.

Each time Matthew Zipple, a behavioral ecologist at Cornell University, releases a mouse that was born and raised in a ...

When postdoctoral researcher Matthew Zipple releases lab mice into a large, enclosed field just off Cornell's campus, something remarkable happens. The mice, which have only ever lived in a cage a ...