Chemical cocktail in skin summons disease-spreading mosquitoes
Mosquitoes that spread Zika, dengue and yellow fever are guided toward their victims by a scent from human skin. The exact composition of that scent has not been identified until now.
Mosquitoes that spread Zika, dengue and yellow fever are guided toward their victims by a scent from human skin. The exact composition of that scent has not been identified until now.
Molecular & Computational biology
Sep 21, 2022
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A commercial plane photoshopped with the tail of a shark, hashtags that misleadingly evoke sustainability, tokenistic use of minorities to distract and to signal virtue: a Harvard report published Tuesday highlights rampant ...
Environment
Sep 21, 2022
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Hurricane Fiona continued its slow and devastating march northward after slamming the Turks and Caicos Islands on Tuesday and leaving a trail of destruction in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.
Environment
Sep 21, 2022
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As Europe suffered its worst drought in centuries, residents in Austria's capital were feeling fortunate for their plentiful water supply that courses from streams in the green forests of the Alps.
Environment
Sep 21, 2022
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In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration captured the first-ever image of a black hole, and earlier this year, it captured an image of the black hole at the heart of our own Milky Way galaxy.
Astronomy
Sep 21, 2022
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What's in a name? For microorganisms, apparently a lot.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 21, 2022
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About 230 whales have been stranded on Tasmania's west coast, just days after 14 sperm whales were found beached on an island off the Australian state's northwestern coast.
Ecology
Sep 21, 2022
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A US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts blasted off to the International Space Station (ISS) Wednesday on a Russian-operated flight, in a rare instance of cooperation between Moscow and Washington.
Space Exploration
Sep 21, 2022
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Ten years after the state of California recognized the human right to water, hundreds of thousands of residents still rely on drinking water that contains dangerous levels of contaminants, including the highly toxic mineral ...
Environment
Sep 21, 2022
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