THEY may seem cute with their fluffy tails, but don’t let squirrels charming appearance fool you. From digging up freshly ...

Now, he and his colleagues show that unconscious mice elicit a suite of behaviors from cage mates that seem to speed recovery from anesthesia. Oxytocin neurons, which underlie helping behaviors in ...

Mice with two fathers have been born—and have survived to adulthood—following a complex set of experiments by a team in China. Zhi-Kun Li at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and his ...

The University of Georgia has been at the forefront of research utilizing transgenic mice. These genetically modified mice are valuable in studying human diseases due to their genetic similarity ...

Researchers at Stanford University detail, in the Sept. 6 issue of the journal Science, how they were able to see through the skin of live mice by applying a mixture of water and tartrazine, a ...

Hoping to bring the giant, ancient animal back from extinction, scientists have created a far smaller woolly creature. Woolly mice have some of the key traits of mammoths, including their thick ...

The implanted mice could also localize an LED light source and even discern different shapes (triangles, squares, circles) almost as well as the mice. And on top of that, they gained a superpower.