You might have to feel the ground with your hands, but a mouse could use its whiskers to find the keys. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...

There is a new furry face to be found among the bookshelves at the Clymer-French Creek Free Library. The library has ...

Remote-controlled rats give critics the creepsIn front-page headlines this month, scientists proclaimed the arrival of robo-rats: rodents with electrodes in their brains whose every move could be ...

The way rats use their whiskers is more similar to how humans use their hands and fingers than previously thought, new research from the University of Sheffield has found.

Rodents like rats use a sense alien to humans, called whisking. By constantly moving their facial whiskers back and forth, they can locate and identify objects around them, even in the dark ...

A new experiment in which volunteers learned to sense objects' locations using just "rat whiskers" may help improve aids for the blind.

Scientists probe our sense of touch for a feedback loop between sensation and motion.

This week in the journal Nature are clues about three human characteristics — big brains, lack of sensory whiskers and penises without spines — that appear to be caused by chunks of DNA that ...

Mouse whiskers, also known as the vibrissa system, are long facial hairs which are sensitive to touch and allow mice to feel around their environment. As a whisker touches something, the sensory ...

There are people who think that a dog's whiskers have no purpose, and are simply longer unruly hairs that are best snipped off at the groomers to make the face look neat and clean. Such people are ...

"Look at that distinguished gentleman, bowtie whiskers," one user wrote, while another commented, "Sensei what is my lesson today." ...