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Here’s a look at Zika virus, an illness spread through mosquito bites that can cause birth defects and other neurological defects. Facts Sources: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), ...

Summer brings warmer temperatures and longer days, and of course that means spending more time outdoors. Unfortunately, it ...

Researchers review the ever-growing list of human viruses, examining their diversity, transmission pathways, and the urgent ...

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One of the most important cognitive foundations of human language is our ability to develop associations between the ...

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Arizona has 28 species of bats that eat annoying insects and pollinate plants. Here's when they come out and what to do if one gets in your house.

The evidence of climate damage in the last century is overwhelming. Consider the loss of 75 percent of species in the world due to changes in rising temperatures and drought, the melting of glaciers ...

For decades, Culex pipiens f. molestus was called the "London Underground Mosquito". Most people, including scientists, ...

Adam Fry is a bug guy. A 20-year veteran of the Metropolitan Mosquito Control Division, he’s used to facing creatures that make other Minnesotans run indoors. But the buggy situation in his own yard ...