However, over time, the mice learned to stop escaping from the perceived threat, demonstrating their ability to suppress ...

Mahershala Ali has suspiciously evaded a question about Marvel's 'Blade' reboot, playfully stating "leave me out of it" when ...

I'm afraid of mice. This is a problem for me — I live in a wooded area and field mice get into the garage and attic. I genuinely want to get over this irrational fear. How can I do it? Gird thy ...

Psilocybin enhances TFC extinction in a subgroup of low-freezing mice. Credit: Nature Neuroscience (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41593-025-01964-9 ...

Scientists have a new clue about the roots of fear. This fear factor doesn't go bump in the night. Instead, it's a gene -- the stathmin gene, to be precise. Mice without that gene behave ...

Musophobia is known as an irrational fear of mice and rats. You might fear all rodents or a particular species with which you previously had a scary encounter. A phobia of rodents is common because we ...

Predators' fear of humans ripples through wildlife communities, emboldening rodents Large and medium-sized carnivores lie low, and mice 'come out to play' while the cat's away ...

Lab mice fear men but not women, and that’s a big problem for science. A new study casts doubt on decades of research. A new study casts doubt on decades of research. by Arielle Duhaime-Ross.

Mice can be taught to fear the smell of a specific odorant simply by giving them electric shocks whenever they're exposed to it. It's then simple to read out the strength of this through a startle ...

In the years after I finished treatment, my fear of mice persisted. Mice seemed to show up wherever I went. The year before my road trip, I had a mouse in my apartment.

Studies of lab mice clearly show that these remarkable rodents are sentient and empathic animals, yet the U. S. Animal Welfare Act continues to claim they're not animals.