Not all mosquitoes are to blame, however. Every bloodsucking malaria vector comes from those within the group Anopheles leucosphyrus, which encompasses a comparatively small portion of the planet’s ...

Mosquitoes have been biting people for more than a million years and probably much longer. An analysis of 38 modern mosquitoes’ DNA suggests an ancestral mosquito species developed a preference for ...

Mosquitoes may have started targeting humans millions of years ago, possibly during the spread of Homo erectus in Southeast Asia.

Most lethal mutations in wild fruit flies are driven by newly transferred jumping genes, not small DNA errors, according to a new study from Duke University. The findings, published in PLOS Biology, ...

Malware is evolving to evade sandboxes by pretending to be a real human behind the keyboard. The Picus Red Report 2026 shows 80% of top attacker techniques now focus on evasion and persistence, ...

An antibody test for the infectious disease mpox was successfully developed during the new clade 1b outbreak in Rwanda, the ...

By Hugo Francisco de Souza Trained on genomic data spanning the tree of life, Evo 2 reveals how artificial intelligence can ...

The story of GraalVM in early 2026: a project settling into a quarterly cadence, tightening its support matrix, and—thanks to Oracle—being very explicit about what it is no longer going to be.

Angelina Jolie declared that her double mastectomy scars “are a choice” she is “grateful” she was able to make. “I’ve always been someone more interested in the scars and the life that people carry,” ...

Scientists at the Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine in Bengaluru have identified a single gene linked to a cluster of three serious health conditions, dilated cardiomyopathy, ...