For generations, laboratory mice have lived and died under fluorescent lights, their world reduced to plastic cages and ...

From work meetings to first dates, it's essential to adjust our behavior for success. In certain situations, it can even be a ...

When scientists opened the doors of a research facility and let carefully bred lab mice loose into a fenced field, they ...

Lab mice are subjected to countless horrors during their short lives, from being injected with cancerous cells to getting ...

To measure mouse fear and anxiety, scientists use a classic tool called the “elevated plus maze.” It looks just like it ...

When postdoctoral researcher Matthew Zipple releases lab mice into a large, enclosed field just off Cornell's campus, ...

Dozens of laboratory mice allowed to roam a large outdoor enclosure returned to a typical level of mouse anxiety after just ...

“This is a paradigm shift,” says Donn Van Deren, PhD, postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, who conducted the research while working in human genetics at the University of ...

Researchers have discovered several factors that affect field mouse behavior using seeds from dwarf bamboo plants, a plant that flowers once in a century. Their findings not only suggest the ...

You may be familiar with this scenario: A child starts annoying another child, and they start bickering. To keep things from escalating, an adult distracts the children by focusing their attention on ...

NASA is preparing to send astronauts on journeys that will include longer stretches in microgravity – to the Moon and onward to Mars. Understanding how basic biology works in space will help ...