Even in northern-tier Midwestern states, ticks are active and crawling for seven months or more yearly, and smart hunters everywhere will take precautions to prevent disease-carrying tick bites. I’ve ...

This work proposes a simple and efficient technique to improve the extinction ratio of a transmitter by using the regenerative properties of four-wave mixing (FWM) in a highly non-linear dispersion ...

Ticks also figuratively suck because they’re just plain gross. According to the Centers for Disease Control, avoiding wooded and bushy areas is the best way to prevent tick bites. Unfortunately, this ...

All-optical wavelength multicasting at 4times10 Gb/s with extinction ratio enhancement has been demonstrated based on pump-modulated four-wave mixing in a nonlinear photonic crystal fiber. We show ...

Learning how to avoid ticks while hiking is essential for every outdoor enthusiast who wants to enjoy the great ...

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: It's looking like a bad year for tick bites. Data from the CDC show people are seeking emergency care at the highest rates since 2019. So if you are planning a hike or a ...

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: It's looking like a bad year for tick bites. Data from the CDC show people are seeking emergency care at the highest rates since 2019. So if you are planning a hike or a trip ...

Dear Doctors: We live in Wisconsin, and this year we're seeing a lot of news about ticks carrying Lyme disease and a few other kinds I hadn't heard of before. They don't fly around like mosquitoes ...

DEET and picaridin are synthetic chemicals effective at repelling ticks. You can also tick-proof your clothing by treating it with an insecticide called permethrin, which incapacitates ticks by ...

York, Maine, sprayed Bog Road Fields with insecticide due to a high volume of tick reports. Ticks were reported on playground equipment, picnic tables, and the building.

Ticks are out and about with this warm weather, and Lyme disease is a concern along with a bigger threat in the region, according to health experts. DCH emergency physician Dr. William Barton shared ...