"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Whether you think mice are pests to be eliminated by any means necessary or simply cute and cuddly guests ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." If you think you just saw a mouse, it probably wasn't the only one. "The rule of thumb is that for every ...

In 1894, William C. Hooker was awarded a patent for a mouse trap that killed a mouse with a single loaded trap upon contact. While some may argue it is more humane to trap and release a mouse versus ...

Some inventions are completely unique ideas, but most build or improve upon existing technologies. As American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson reportedly said, “Build a better mousetrap, and the world will ...

I edited our "Home Invaders" feature on ousting unwanted critters from the house for the November issue of Popular Mechanics, so I was well prepared to deal with a little home invasion of my own—or so ...

Just when you thought you had explored all the weird stuff on YouTube, along comes [Shawn Woods] with his channel dedicated to testing different types of mouse traps. His weekly videos demonstrate the ...

Some of the oldest known mousetraps were catalogued in the late sixteenth century, by Leonard Mascall, the clerk of the kitchen to the Archbishop of Canterbury. Mascall published a series of books on ...