We often think of memories like the contents of a museum: static exhibits that we view to understand the present and prepare for the future.

Each time Matthew Zipple, a behavioral ecologist at Cornell University, releases a mouse that was born and raised in a ...

African striped mice are used to desert conditions but are showing dehydration as climate change heats up their environment.

Large wild mammals—from elephants to antelopes—are already struggling to cope with global warming. Now new research shows ...

Most of the time, you assume your brain is either “on” or “off,” awake or asleep. A new study shows something far more ...

Find out which animals live the longest and what clues this gives us for potentially slowing down human aging.

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

The millions of mice used in labs are extremely important for medical research. But for them, life is almost always miserable. Imagine spending your entire life in a shoebox-sized cell, with stagnant ...

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A good deal of scientific research shows that mice and rats are bright, sentient, and deep emotional rodents. Yet they aren't even considered to be "animals" in the United States federal Animal ...

In recent months, the Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health have announced new initiatives to reduce and replace animal testing in biomedical research. Central to these ...