Read more mosquito stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/4933/mosquito.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 13:18:41 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/68420/stress-keeps-mosquitoes-away.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMosquito magnets, take note: British scientists have identified which bodily chemical odors make some people less attractive to mosquitoes, and they may be ones related to stress, the Wall Street Journal reports. It’s thought that the insects avoid anxious people in favor of healthier prey, a finding that could pave...http://www.newser.com/story/68420/stress-keeps-mosquitoes-away.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 02 Sep 2009 8:46:51 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66683/mosquito-invasion-threatens-galapagos-wildlife.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagScientists fear that winged invaders could wipe out native species on the islands where Charles Darwin developed his theory of evolution, the Times of London reports. Mosquitoes have been hitching rides to the Galapagos on incoming aircraft, and now Galapagos species—including iguanas, tortoises, and Darwin's finches—are in serious...http://www.newser.com/story/66683/mosquito-invasion-threatens-galapagos-wildlife.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 12 Aug 2009 2:10:19 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/53304/star-wars-scientists-take-aim-at-mosquitoes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRocket scientists who worked on ways to beat Soviet missiles a generation ago are now using their lasers to zap mosquitoes, the Wall Street Journal reports. Researchers looking for ways to combat malaria have rejigged "Star Wars" technology to create a contraption that can pick off individual mosquitoes from 100...http://www.newser.com/story/53304/star-wars-scientists-take-aim-at-mosquitoes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 14 Mar 2009 4:06:14 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/49931/gates-lets-mosquitoes-fly-at-audience.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBill Gates had the audience buzzing yesterday as he released a jar of mosquitoes at the TED2009 conference in California during a presentation on eradicating malaria, reports MSNBC. The bugs were not carrying the disease. "Not only poor people should experience this," Gates explained, according to a witness who Twittered...http://www.newser.com/story/49931/gates-lets-mosquitoes-fly-at-audience.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 05 Feb 2009 8:49:30 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/47415/mosquitoes-sing-love-songs.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBirds and bees get all the attention, but mosquitoes have some love moves all their own, scientists say. It seems that when a boy mosquito meets a girl and things turn romantic, their wings beat at precisely the same speed to create a sort of harmonic mating song, the BBC...http://www.newser.com/story/47415/mosquitoes-sing-love-songs.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 08 Jan 2009 20:08:06 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/46513/foreclosed-pools-a-mecca-for-skateboarders.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSkateboarders in California are making the most of the mortgage crisis: they’re turning the swimming pools at foreclosed homes into skate parks. Tracking local foreclosures, one Fresno skater arrives at empty homes with a pump and buckets, drains the pools, and hops on his board, the New York Times reports....http://www.newser.com/story/46513/foreclosed-pools-a-mecca-for-skateboarders.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 29 Dec 2008 8:12:24 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/44725/mosquitoes-a-cure-for-malaria.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMosquitoes land, swap a little of your blood for parasites that head straight to your liver, and so cause a million malaria-related deaths every year, writes Jason Fagone in Esquire . But what if you took those same mosquitoes and irradiated them? You get weakened parasites that make the perfect vaccine,...http://www.newser.com/story/44725/mosquitoes-a-cure-for-malaria.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 13 Dec 2008 4:02:15 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/44768/watershed-vaccine-may-end-malaria-toll.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagScientists have developed a promising vaccine against malaria, a devastating disease that kills a milion people a year, most of them young children. Trials of the breakthrough vaccine enter the final phase next year and it could be widely available by 2012, reports the Los Angeles Times . Successful trials have...http://www.newser.com/story/44768/watershed-vaccine-may-end-malaria-toll.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 09 Dec 2008 1:45:59 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/29146/cheap-malaria-drug-holds-promise-for-millions.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe lives of millions of children may be saved by a new technique for producing a malaria drug at a 10th of the cost of current treatments, making it accessible the world's most impoverished people, reports the Independent . The technique involves inserting a dozen synthetic genes into yeast cells, then...http://www.newser.com/story/29146/cheap-malaria-drug-holds-promise-for-millions.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 04 Jun 2008 3:15:00 CDT