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,” so goes the saying, but VHS beat Betamax and the world hasn’t been the same since. In any case, you might not get rich building ...

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 ...

Creationist Michael Behe has been attracting a lot of attention recently with his advocacy of the "intelligent design" argument. He makes the claim that certain biochemical processes are "irreducibly ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new law covering mouse and rat traps is in force today, carrying a £40,000 fine and a jail sentence.

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