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Why mosquitoes prey on some people and pass on others remains a mystery, although many studies point to the smell that humans give off. Now, a new study suggests that the aroma of a soapcombined with the personal odor of some individuals, it can attract or repel mosquitoes. The detailed studies, carried out by scientists of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)are published this wednesday in the magazine 'iScience'. Research has found that an individual, extremely attractive to mosquitoes when unwashed, "can become even more attractive for mosquitoes with a soapand become repulsive to mosquitoes with another,"…

Stephen Hawking's legacy goes beyond the fundamental theorem What did they think in 1971 about the mechanics of black holes, a phenomenon that could not be verified visually until 50 years later. In addition to confirming that there was a big bang At the beginning of it all, the British theoretical physicist is the author of the new spacetime theory and much of the discoveries of modern astrophysics. He also uncovered unresolved paradoxes and I raise Short answers Poor me big questions of the humanity: predicted the possible and dramatic effects that artificial intelligence could have on everyday life and,…

The date of the end of the world is one of the primal and timeless questions of all humanity. Thousands upon thousands of pages and frames of movies have been filled with fantasizing about when it would be and how it could be avoided. civilizations like ancient mayans They speculated on the calendar and dated the apocalypse: the world was going to end on December 21, 2012. But years later, the American scientist Paolo Tagalogin Avoid that, due to a calculation error, it is abandoned to add 11 days per year to the Mayan date. "We use the Gregorian calendar…