A scientist scraped a black dot on his forehead and put it under a microscope. He saw dozens of tiny face mites, aka Demodex mites, crawling around on the plate. Demodex are harmless and like to live ...

I hate to break this to you, but you almost certainly have tiny mites living in the pores in your face right now. They’re called Demodex. And pretty much every adult human alive has a population of ...

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From the tea we drink, to the water we swim in, to the beds we sleep upon, millions of minuscule mites share our wide world. Mites are arachnids, much like spiders and scorpions, and the microscopic ...

This story appears in the May 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. It has been updated with new research. At this moment, hundreds or thousands of tiny eight-legged animals are nestled deep in ...