Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I grow heaps of catnip in my garden, so when I read new research that suggests the plant's oil is as effective at repelling ...

Known for its intoxicating effects on felines, catnip oil may also have a future in termite control. Recent experiments by USDA Forest Service researcher Chris Peterson show that catnip oil repels and ...

A bigger more hearty catnip plant – whose enriched oil not only promises to drive cats crazy with pleasure but also may be a safer, more effective mosquito repellent – has been developed for ...

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A plant best known for sending cats into a frenzy may soon help protect people from one of the world's deadliest diseases. The study comes as malaria continues to pose a major global health challenge.

NEW ORLEANS, March 25 — Cats may adore catnip, but termites hate it. That's what two researchers found in a new study presented today at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the ...

Major insurers are split over a Medicare plan to bar vendor-run remote monitoring. What it may mean for Medicare Advantage members before open enrollment. Nursing home capacity fell 5% from 2019 to ...

Catnip may be the cat’s meow, but the plant’s oil repels roaches and mosquitoes (SN: 9/8/01, p. 148: Available to subscribers at Feline stimulant fends off mosquitoes). Now, the entomologist who ...

I grow heaps of catnip in my garden, so when I read new research that suggests the plant's oil is as effective at repelling mosquitoes as DEET, I didn’t hesitate to make my own skidaddle-you-skeeters ...