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Dark sky reserves and skin cream combats mosquito viruses

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Dark sky reserves and skin cream to combat mozzie virus

Tim chats with Tekapō  Dark Sky project guide, Holly McClelland, about what happens in a dark sky reserve and how optical telescopes work

And Chantelle reviews research into how skin cancer cream reduces risk of  mosquito-borne virus by triggering an immune response as soon as the mozzie bites

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Links:

https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/12/527/eaax2421

https://tinyurl.com/uere3vn