Nothing adds insult to injury quite like a mosquito bite on a hot summer day. And if you’ve tried the candles, sprays, lights and everything else, you may think the fight against bugs is hopeless.

In a recent study, researcher Anandasankar Ray at the University of California, Riverside, and his team employed machine learning techniques combined with cheminformatics to predict novel mosquito ...

Do backyard mosquito control machines really make it safe to go outside? -- B.U.Z., Tulsa. Remember, the Titanic sank. The American Mosquito Control Association ...

I would expect a bubble machine to work better than a citronella candle, but only because citronella candles barely work at all. Eleven years ago, we published a brief report of a quirky hack: Turning ...

Mosquitoes and other biting insects are a pretty rude bunch. They show up at your cookouts uninvited and proceed to make a feast out of every human in sight. So, as we gear up for warmer weather and ...

Engineers have turned one of nature’s most reviled body parts into a precision tool, using the hollow feeding tubes of dead ...