Feeding the Meter, Helping the Homeless?
American cities have tried many ambitious methods to “fix” their homelessness problems, from San Francisco’s “care-not-cash” program, which…
Giant Bird-Eating Mice
Gough Island, a British-owned outcrop in the South Atlantic about 2,000 miles off the coast of South America,…
Extinct Tasmanian Tigers Return … in Mice
In the first successful experiment of its kind, researchers from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and the University…
The ‘Silent Tsunami’ Food Crisis in America
Even in an over-retailed America, there are still heavily populated areas that lack that basic service provider of urban life, a grocery store.
Live Longer on the Rat Diet
A new study has found that eating less makes mice live longer — and the benefits of a…
Bioterror in Context
How and why the threat of bioterrorism has been so greatly exaggerated. A Miller-McCune interview of UCLA's William R. Clark.
Making International News
Cristi Hegranes and her nonprofit train women around the world so they can help their communities — through journalism.
Breathing Is Skin Deep
Skin, at least in mice, responds to the oxygen around it, a finding that may have implications for endurance athletes.
Just How Bad Is the Air in Beijing?
Masked marathoners aside, a new paper suggests that as bad as Beijing's air quality may be, it has improved during the decade leading up to the Olympics.
As Rats Grow Long in the Teeth
In previous Today In Mice posts, we’ve talked about teenage rats being 28 days old — the equivalent…