Mice that experience the real world may be better models for human mental health conditions, compared with lab mice that ...

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

If a female house mouse mates with multiple male house mice, her litter could have multiple fathers. Polyandry, as this mating practice is called, is common for various species. Yet scientists are ...

A confocal microscopy image of doublecortin-stained newborn neurons (pink) and nuclear stain DAPI (green), which shows that neurogenesis is occurring in the brain of a normal mouse. Scientists at ...

A physics experiment published this year that claimed to measure a single photon in two places at once – and, in the process, discredit the idea of a multiverse – drew pushback from many sceptical ...

A near-100-year-old debate between the theoretical physicists Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr has finally been settled—and not in the former’s favor. A team of physicists in China have realized a ...

Mice have remained the focal point for life sciences research for the past several decades. Their universality in biomedicine lies in the fact that they present unparalleled insights into human ...

As a UMass Amherst alumna, I am deeply disturbed by the whistleblower report from inside UMass Chan Medical School’s animal laboratories. Animals used in experiments have precious little legal ...

A new study from UCLA Health has found that long-term residential exposure to the pesticide chlorpyrifos is associated with more than a 2.5-fold increased risk of developing Parkinson's disease. The ...

IN what remains of a cemetery, at what used to be the edge of Bujumbura, the living displace the dead. Burundi’s largest city is growing so fast that people have built homes where once there were ...