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Why You Can’t Kill a Mosquito with a Raindrop

Compared to a spindly mosquito ... Mosquitos also have water-repellent hairs that may help them separate from stuck-on raindrops; aircraft could achieve the same thing with hydrophobic coatings. Now i... read more

10 Maine startups to keep an eye on

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15 best lip balms

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Plants produce ‘green vaccine’ against norovirus in ASU study

As the authors note, plant-based ... hard to put a price on a human life, but consider how much we are willing to pay for small reductions in risk of death. New cars contain thousands of dollars of op... read more

Christmas gifts for the guy or girl who already has everything

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In Spike of it all, Pakistan makes it big

(From top to bottom) ‘Sound of Honda’ by Dentsu Tokyo; ‘Mawbina-Mosquito repellent paper’ by Leo Burnett Colombo ... who answered the question of why he is so good. “Because I give a s**t.” Japan – La... read more

Piecing together puzzles in Cambodia

Why ... not so lucky. “They took all the people from the cities – educated people, teachers, office workers – and put them to work in the fields. Then in the fields, if someone got sick, they would be ... read more

Inside the New World of Listenomics

"This was just an exercise in design," he says. "It was never my intention to profit from it. I still haven't profited one dime from it. In fact, it's cost me money." So why would a 37 ... was never m... read more

Schooling the Chinese

With its high sulfur content, rubberwood attracted bugs, and the two countries where it was most prevalent—Malaysia and Indonesia—were humid, causing mold and insect problems. The trees decayed so qui... read more

Wild Neighbours

Exclusion, repellents, changing human ... eggs and other parts of that wildlife, so it would usually be illegal to interfere with or destroy the nest of a protected bird species if it contained eggs. ... read more

Microplastics are getting into mosquitoes and contaminating new food chains

Our new research shows that these microplastics are even getting into tiny flying insects such as mosquitoes. And this means the plastic can eventually contaminate animals in a more unlikely environme... read more

Biologists reveal why mosquito repellent DEET is doomed to fail

Everyone's favorite mosquito repellent, DEET ... This could help explain why it's so hard to develop efficient repellents, and maybe help stop the spread of diseases from the insects. Advertisement Re... read more