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Maybe i missed some words in the article, but I don't see it say when they figured this out. Because it's been at least a decade since I learned about it in school or from a science magazine at school.
Have people been going around not knowing about this until now?
Or is it that only now can they say with certainty this is true?
I did not
It was always my understanding that they detected carbon dioxide we exhaled. This is the first I've heard about infrared.
When I worked for the county doing mosquito control about 15 years ago, I was told they did both.
The paper was published last month https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07848-5
But I suspect this was not a new discovery as much as a new expansion of the information.
Maybe they watched Predator, I saw something similar happen there
"If it bleeds, I can use its proteins to reproduce!"
Just doesn't have the same ring to it.
I don't remember when I learned about it or how verifiable the source was, but I knew it too for at least a decade. I am a radiant, heavy-breathing, sweaty target. I have outclassed everyone I've ever met on the mosquito attraction scale. I've used loose longer clothes but thought it was just stopping their bites from reaching my skin. I didn't think about how it could also be diffusing my thermal appearance since I'd still get bitten on exposed areas like face and hands.
yeah I thought we (humanity) already knew this and for some time now.
I think humanity has always assumed this. Hurray for scientific conformation.