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Water availability has stronger effects on West Nile virus dynamics in water-limited regions
West Nile virus dynamics are shaped by hydrological conditions that influence mosquito habitat and pathogen transmission, but identifying causal relationships is difficult in managed landscapes where irrigation decouples local water conditions from precipitation, complicating climate-disease inference. We address this challenge using a 21-year panel of more than 19 million Culex tarsalis mosquitoes from California's Central Valley, applying fixed-effects panel models to estimate how surface...
Google wants to release 64 million bacteria-riddled mosquitoes across California and Florida. Here’s why scientists are enthusiastic.
Google wants to release 64 million bacteria-riddled mosquitoes across California and Florida. Here’s why scientists are enthusiastic. Google has applied for an experimental mosquito release permit to deploy millions of non-biting southern house mosquitoes that it has infected with the bacterium Wolbachia pipientis, in an effort to reduce mosquito-borne diseases like West Nile virus.
Google plans to release 32 million Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes across Florida and California
Google's parent company Alphabet is seeking federal approval to release 32 million specially treated mosquitoes across California and Florida over the next two years—as part of a bid to reduce the spread of mosquito-borne diseases including West Nile virus and St. Louis encephalitis. The proposal, filed with the US Environmental Protection Agency, is part of Alphabet's Debug initiative, a project launched in 2016 by its life sciences subsidiary Verily. The EPA is currently reviewing the...
Good vs bad mosquito: What is Google's plan to fight pest-borne deadly diseases?
Google plans to release millions of mosquitoes into the United States in a new project aimed at curbing mosquito-borne diseases by releasing more “good bugs” instead of fighting them. Mosquitoes are responsible for around 700,000 to 1 million human deaths worldwide every year, making the flying pests the deadliest insect on the planet. Their numbers are expected to rise as climate change and migration increase their transmission and expand mosquito habitats.
Debugging: Google requests permission to release 32m mosquitoes in California and Florida
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Egypt’s new monorail offers a modern ride, but Cairo is still not convinced
Egypt’s new monorail offers a modern ride, but Cairo is still not convinced Cairo’s East Nile monorail opened to passengers this month as a flagship of Egypt’s infrastructure ambitions. Cairo, Egypt – On a weekday afternoon in early May, Mohammed Adel boarded the monorail at Musheer Tantawi station and watched Cairo’s cityscape scroll by. The 48-year-old sales manager had boarded a train on the Egyptian capital’s latest public transport transit line, Cairo’s East Nile monorail, to test it.
As the largest World Cup ever kicks off, health officials are focused on more than Ebola
As athletes and millions of fans gear up for the FIFA World Cup starting next week, global health officials are preparing for a high-stakes challenge of their own: protecting against infectious diseases. For the first time, the tournament will span 16 host cities across three countries — the United States, Canada and Mexico — and feature 48 teams, making it the largest World Cup in history. The event also comes amid an Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda that the World Health Organization has...
The bird that woke us up has fallen silent. Can we bring back the Sparrow's chirp?
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Science news this week: Ötzi the Iceman used to make sourdough, Italian teenagers discover Roman villa under school, Google plans to release 64 million mosquitos, and RIP to NASA's Maven probe
Science news this week: Ötzi the Iceman used to make sourdough, Italian teenagers discover Roman villa under school, Google plans to release 64 million mosquitos, and RIP to NASA's Maven probe June 6, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend Surprise discoveries that were thousands of years in the making dominated this week's science news, with scientists discovering that Ötzi the Iceman's body...
In Senegal, a 2,000‑year‑old iron workshop sheds new light on the past
In Senegal, a 2,000‑year‑old iron workshop sheds new light on the past Lisa Lock Scientific Editor Andrew Zinin Lead Editor How was iron produced 2,000 years ago in Senegal? A recent study at the Didé West 1 archaeological site, in the Falémé Valley in eastern Senegal, sheds light on an ancient iron production technique. Passed down from generation to generation for nearly eight centuries, this technology appears to have been developed to meet local needs.