mouse

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Before the iPhone, Apple shook up home computing with the 1984 Macintosh, whose icon-based interface and mouse made computing accessible beyond specialists -- and sparked a legendary rivalry between Jobs and Microsoft's Bill Gates.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

In mouse studies, removing SLIT3 or the PLXNA1 receptor made the animals more sensitive to cold and less able to maintain their body temperature.

From Science Daily • Mar. 28, 2026

Scientists successfully unfroze part of a mouse brain—and it still worked.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

He clicked the mouse on a window displaying several lines of Smalltalk code, made a minor edit, and returned to the text.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

“A mouse genetically modified with compound eyes so it can see a thousand things at once!”

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste