A hospital patient has been left disgusted after repeatedly seeing mice running around in his ward. Daniel Hendron, 32, who is being treated for a leg infection at Walsall Manor Hospital, has been ...

But a new study suggests that the rodents enjoy running and when wild mice come across an exercise wheel they do exactly the same thing voluntarily. A group of scientists set up wheels in the wild ...

Two brain regions work together when mice learn to override the instinct to run and hide from a potential threat.

Then, she and her colleagues repeated the experiment at a dune-filled natural preserve and found similar results. Not only did wild house mice run on the wheel, but so did rats, shrews, frogs, slugs, ...

When their eyes were re-opened, mice were allowed to run on a “treadmill” of Styrofoam balls suspended on a stream of air, either with or without a visual stimulus. Within a week, the group that ...