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Scientists Built a Giant Human Scent Buffet to Learn How Mosquitoes Find Us

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Researchers created a giant sniffing arena for mosquitoes, all in hopes of understanding why they’re so drawn to us. Among other things, they found that human body odor was more alluring to the insects than the mere presence of carbon dioxide, a chemical that we exhale.

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Source: gizmodo.com