Most people would probably prefer to forget that their eyebrows are also shaggy ecosystems, home to scores of microscopic hair mites. But a DNA analysis reveals that your mites are incredibly loyal to ...

If you are reading this, you are probably not alone. Most people on Earth are habitats for mites that spend the majority of their brief lives burrowed, head-first, in our hair follicles, primarily of ...

A truth universally known is that tiny mites are present on the human body: staying in hair follicles, mating and laying eggs on dead skin cells, generally causing no harm. But a new study has made ...

Scientists have known since the 1840s that masses of tiny mites live on our faces, but they’ve only recently begun to study these creepy-looking arachnids in earnest. Both species feed on oil in our ...

SAN FRANCISCO (December 14, 2015) -- Scientists have discovered a universal human truth about our bodies: they all, without exception, have mites. A landmark new study, led by scientists at Bowdoin ...