To eat or to mate -- that is the question (and the answer is: moderately hungry mice choose to mate). Researchers show that hungry mice prioritize interacting with members of the opposite sex over ...

Using experimental techniques like calcium imaging in freely moving mice, optogenetics, and chemogenetics, a study in the journal Cell Metabolism this week demonstrated, faced with a decision between ...

Making decisions is hard. Even when we know what we want, our choice often leaves something else on the table. For a hungry mouse, every morsel counts. But what if the decision is more consequential ...