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 ...

Teams of mountaineering mice are helping advance understanding into how evolutionary adaptation to localized conditions can ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

After what must surely have been one of the oddest opening remarks to the Royal Society in its storied 200-plus-year history — “I shall largely speak of mice,” Calhoun began, “but my thoughts are 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.

Teams of mountaineering mice are helping advance understanding into how evolutionary adaptation to localized conditions can enable a single species to thrive across diverse environments.

US researchers have found an astonishingly simple brain circuit of just three types of neurons controls chewing motions in mice, and has a surprising impact on their appetite too. "It's surprising ...

22 Delta Air Lines flight landed her in the emergency room. Her pal, Catalina Lewis, 45, also fell ill and tested positive ...