The squeak of a mouse tells most people to buy a mousetrap, but it tells some researchers a lot more. According to an April 1 study in PLoS ONE, mouse noises indicate certain states of mind, and ...

Why is it that humans can talk but mice can’t? New research published in the journal Nature Communications found that it might be due to a specific gene. If you asked somebody what sound a mouse makes ...

When you think of animals that sing, birds will certainly come to mind. Whales might, too. But mice? Or fish? It turns out mice and fish do sing, although "vocalizations" might be a more technically ...

People like to talk. We're unique in the animal kingdom in terms of how much we communicate and the kinds of information we discuss. Scientists are trying to understand how this special trait evolved ...

When a male mouse is about to have sex with a female, he lets out ultrasonic squeals of delight. The vocalisations are controlled by a gene that is also involved in the production of the brain ...

Deep Squeak is the name of an artificial intelligence program that was designed to detect the high-frequency "squeaks" mice and rats make when they are stressed. But a new application of the ...