Some scientific experiments can sound ridiculous, especially to us writerly types—like, for instance, a study measuring mosquitoes’ attraction to limburger cheese.
There’s even a fake prize dedicated to mocking such studies: the “Ig Nobel,” which the aforementioned mosquito story won several years back.
But the knowledge we gained from those cheese-smitten blood-suckers served as the basis for research that now indicates that “malaria-carrying mosquitoes are more attracted to the smell of human flesh than healthy mosquitoes,” which could be vital information to the prevention of widespread illness and death. Science, you rascal!
