Inside a small building in eastern Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Cátia Cabral holds up a jar filled with what looks like fine black pepper. But this ain't pepper. Each granule is actually a tiny mosquito ...

Deep inside Medellin, Colombia, scientists are breeding millions of mosquitoes every week and then releasing them into the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Aedes aegypti mosquito transmits a number of serious diseases. American beachgoers are sprayed with DDT as a new machine for ...

The deadliest animals are not lions, spiders or snakes, but the tiny mosquitoes that suck our blood, make us itchy and infect ...

For more than two decades, Luciano Moreira has played a defining role in the development and large-scale deployment of the World Mosquito Program’s Wolbachia method of breeding mosquitoes that can’t ...

DDT helped wipe out one of the deadliest species from Brazil, but that's not the end of the story. By RJ Mackenzie Published May 2, 2025 8:00 AM EDT Add Popular Science (opens in a new tab) More ...