If you think you just saw a mouse, it probably wasn't the only one. "The rule of thumb is that for every mouse you see in the home, another 10 are hiding out," said Dion Lerman, Environmental Health ...

ONE US city is cracking down on mouse traps – and residents who use a certain kind will be hit with $500 fines. Ann Arbor, ...

A number of unique and intriguing mousetraps have been designed throughout history. The best are true marvels of engineering, beautiful in their mechanical simplicity. One of the greatest has to be ...

A Victorian mousetrap on display at an England museum actually trapped a mouse. Photo: Courtesy of Museum of English Rural Life A perpetual mousetrap that was patented in 1861, the year Abraham ...

This homemade mousetrap from the early 19th century was discovered in a home in Amityville, New York, and donated to the Smithsonian Institution in 1891. Hugh Talman / NMAH, SI This large iron spring ...

Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door, but what about a smarter mousetrap? [Alain] decided to find out by making a Raspberry Pi-powered, Internet-connected smart trap.

"Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door." This famous (mis)quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson is used to describe the value in improving a basic product. His advice has also ...

If you’ve got a mouse problem, you’ve probably considered all kinds of traps to solve it. Everyone wants to design a better mousetrap, but we all might be a few centuries late. Youtuber Shawn Woods ...

A mouse trap dating from circa 1861 and on permanent display at the Museum of English Rural Life in Reading made good on its promise that it “will last a lifetime.” On Tuesday morning, the museum’s ...

For nearly 50 years, kids and adults have been constructing elaborate scenarios in Mouse Trap, the board game that makes pest control a family affair. Using plastic pieces, players build a series of ...