Image of the Month: A Halloween Scare

Published in Fundamentals - Fundamentals October 2020


Halloween is fast approaching and Johns Hopkins researchers have made one of their spookiest findings yet. Humans are turning i n v i s i b l e.

Well sort of. Researchers found that when exposed to DEET, the neurons in the anopholes mosquito's nose did not fire indicating that when humans wear DEET-based repellent, we become "invisible" to mosquitos.

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