The muggy weather is creating a “perfect storm” for mosquitoes to descend on our gardens. But the latest high-tech weapon in the battle against the bloodsuckers doesn’t come in the form or a spray or clip, instead it’s a free app on your smartphone. Anti-mosquito apps emit ultrasonic frequencies designed to frighten the mosquitoes away…The Liverpool researchers added that “male mosquitoes are actually the ones attracted by the female flight sound, and females normally have a very weak sensitivity for sound compared with the males.” Wayne Crans, Associate Research Professor in Entomology at Rutgers added mosquitoes are also not known to leave areas hunted by dragonflies.

Today’s Millennials could be tomorrow’s very sweaty retirees thanks to temperatures and humidity levels that are rising so fast that, by the end of this century, simply going outside could be deadly. “As temperatures rise, toward the end of the century, less than an hour of activity outdoors in the shade could cause a moderately fit individual to suffer heat stroke,” said climatologist Robert Kopp of Rutgers University, lead scientific author of the shocking report ‘Risky Business.’ “That’s something that doesn’t exist anywhere in the world today.”

A damp, mouldy house has long been known to trigger asthma and allergies – and new research has now linked it to an increased risk of Parkinson’s disease. Scientists found a compound emitted by mould can be linked to the development of the neurological…