June 25, 2025
In 2014 the Gates Foundation awarded a $100,000 grant to a company developing a cologne that would make cows smell like humans so mosquitos would feed on them instead.
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What Purposes Do Mosquitoes Serve in Ecosystems?
All of us have experienced this: It’s nighttime, and we’re drifting off to sleep when we think we hear something close by. The sound gets louder, and we know what it is now—the high-pitched hum of a tiny invader’s rapid machinelike wingbeats cutting through the darkness and spiraling toward us. It
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