A mouse scurries up to six chestnuts. Three look healthy. Three have exit holes where moth larvae ate the insides before they ...

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 ...

The instinct to help a fellow creature runs deep. We see the behavior in humans, elephants and now mice. A new study published in the journal Science outlines what it calls prosocial behavior in mice ...

Humans may not be the only ones who aid their friends when they're hurt. Mice may do it, too, as shown by a new research study led by scientists at the Keck School of Medicine of USC published ...

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 ...

Many animals do something that still surprises researchers: females often mate with more than one male. This ...

Researchers are utilizing artificial intelligence to analyze the behavior of laboratory mice more efficiently and reduce the number of animals in experiments. Researchers at ETH Zurich are utilising ...

Fixing the balance of a single brain circuit erased anxiety and social deficits in mice, revealing a powerful new target for ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have found that hunger can make virgin female mice aggressive towards pups, but only in certain hormonal states. These mice would usually ignore other ...

Past research has found that exposure to bright lights and high levels of noise can alter both physiological processes and ...