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A mosquito with a severed ventral nerve cord can't sense when it is full, and it will keep on feeding well beyond what its body can hold.

Researchers who ply the waters of the Okefenokee Swamp are gnawing on a question that bedevils them: Why are some alligators losing their teeth?

In this ‘behind the paper’ post, Ary Hoffmann explains how they found a Wolbachia strain that caused all-female offspring in infected flies and the finding that host genes are able to suppress this phenotype.

KATHMANDU — Something occurred to Phoebe Griffith as she observed gharial and mugger crocodiles in and around Nepal’s Chitwan National Park, she recalls. Both crocodiles live in the same environment, and from the neck down they’re everything one would expect a crocodile to look like. But the similarities end there. “Gharials are critically endangered, they […]

AI develops the ability to identify the species of splattered insects. For training AI, researchers have accumulated 1500 photos of crushed and unharmed insects. They want to create a smartphone app that can monitor pathogen-causing species.

For decades, George Wuerthner was surrounded by mosquitoes, sometimes in almost unimaginable numbers. Though he has observed swarms of mosquitoes in the lower 48 states—the Everglades, for example—nothing compares to the insect storm Wuerthner experienced in the Far North.

Males mosquitoes are harmless, mostly feeding on nectar, but our new research confirms they are just as annoying as female mosquitoes.

Perran Ross, Author provided The whine of the mosquito is unpleasant and often inescapable outdoors on summer evenings.

Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Designed to Suppress Virus Bearing Mosquitoes Released in the US A biotechnology company has launched genetically modified mosquitoes in the open air for the first time in the United States, after a decade of battling for regulatory clearance and general recognition.

Coronavirus vaccines have been produced and deployed in record time, but low-income countries have received far too few doses since the global rollout has advanced. Its a stark reminder that the worlds poorest people are frequently left behind when it comes to infectious diseases. Deadlier than Covid (Photo : Jim Gathany/CDC) Malaria Vaccine (Photo : Pixabay) For the first time, a vaccine has shown high effectiveness in clinical trials, stopping the illness in 77 percent of people who received ...