Like humans, mice will compete over territory and mates, and show increased confidence in their fighting skills the more they ...

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A pet cat appeared fascinated, watching two mice fighting on the floor. Footage shows the moggy sitting on a chair while observing the rodents tackling each other below in Manila, the Philippines ...

Often, there are spectators. Nirao Shah and his team at Stanford University wondered how those individuals on the sidelines of a fight perceive aggressive interactions. Their findings, published in ...

The fight against so-called deepfakes has taken a strange twist as researchers turn to mice to help prevent the spread of misinformation. Scientists at the University of Oregon’s Institute of ...

Like humans, mice will compete over territory and mates, and show increased confidence in their fighting skills the more they win. At first, a brain chemical called dopamine is essential for young ...

Normally if a mouse sees a cat, it scuttles away in the other direction, but that's not what happens after mice get infected with a parasite called Toxoplasma gondii. Once inside the mouse's body ...

In a study published in Development on September 26, scientists say they’ve characterized two retrovirus-derived genes that fight infections in the brains of mammals that give ... Knocking out the ...