In a recent study, researcher Anandasankar Ray at the University of California, Riverside, and his team employed machine ...

Mosquitoes use their sense of smell and taste to find and feed on humans, spreading diseases like dengue. These sensory ...

Here’s what does and doesn’t work. Gimmicky repellents don’t work Citronella has been regarded as a “natural” mosquito repellent. But there’s no indication that citronella candles ...

So the importance of using an effective mosquito repellent cannot be overstated. When a mosquito bites, its saliva acts like an anaesthetic, preventing you from feeling it. But it's only female ...

and his team employed machine learning techniques combined with cheminformatics to predict novel mosquito repellents that could greatly improve global mosquito control efforts. Using the same ...