Nestled in dark burrows, with a limited sense of vision, mice brush their whiskers against their environment to navigate and to detect objects around them. This behavior, termed whisking, has been ...

Given all that biologists know about living creatures, we often assume that little remains to be discovered. Yet some surprising recent research cautions us that there is more to many species than has ...

There isn't much to think about when buying a mouse, but one of the most important aspects is one you can't tell by glancing at the box—how it sounds. Mice have gotten better over the past decade or ...

Washington University's Timothy Holy discusses his research into the melodies of male mice. His study, published last week, suggests that the ultrasonic sounds that male mice make in the presence of ...

After a week of stress, mice show changes in how their brains process sound, reducing how well they perceive loud noises, according to a new study. After a week of stress, mice show changes in how ...

Could people’s eyes and ears help fix the damage Alzheimer’s disease does to the brain? Just by looking at flashing light and listening to flickering sound? A new study led by a prominent MIT ...

A new study provides new evidence that sensory stimulation of a gamma-frequency brain rhythm may promote broad-based restorative neurological health response. Studies by a growing number of labs have ...