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During prehistoric times, the mosquito was already a nuisance for millions of years. Fossil evidence suggests they have been around for 46 to 100 million years — humming, buzzing, flying, biting, ...

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Scientists studying an amber collection from the Goethe National Museum in the German town of Weimar have made a remarkable ...

I shudder to think how often I’ve courted disaster, unknowingly, like this. The episode drives home a stark truth: out here, who detects the other first can determine who survives. Alert, we become ...