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Badass Scientists Prepare Anti-Mosquito Laser
6:15AM Dan Nosowitz | Sure, this project is the product of a great humanitarian impulse: wiping out malaria, which claims about a million lives a year. But you can tell the astrophysicists are having a blast with it, too. More »
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Scientists Use Mosquito-Mouth Design for Pain-Free Hypodermic Needle
8:06PM Kit Eaton | Scientists at Indian Institute of Technology and Tokai University have taken the natural features of a mosquito’s mouth, and created a new type of needle that promises pain-free blood sample collection and injections. More »
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Cordless Propane Mosquito Trap Gives You Al Fresco Bug Jerky
8:30PM Gizmodo US Edition | Effective over up to an acre of land, this battery-powered garden gadget allows you to commit mass mosquito-cide using a tank of propane. Silent and odourless, the trap emits octenol (something that mozzies find sexy, aspazzarently) to lure the beasties close to the machine. Once there, a vacuum gathers them into the “removable catch basin”, or death pan, as I like to call it, where they are dehydrated, giving you the potential to serve mosquito, midge, black-fly and sand-fly biltong at your barbecues. Cost is US$500, and the mosquito trap will run for up to three weeks on a 9kg propane tank. [Hammacher Schlemmer] More »
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