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Indians collect meals distributed on day 19 of the 21-day nationwide lockdown in New Delhi, India.
food

Here's What Indians Ate After a No-Warning, Midnight Lockdown

Dozens of crowdsourced food photos reveal inequality, but also generosity.
Jennifer Kishan April 14, 2020
Dirty Water is one of hundreds of distilleries across the United States in manufacturing hand sanitizer.
disease

Inside One Distillery’s Pivot to Hand Sanitizer

The small Massachusetts outfit supplies local police, firefighters, and hospitals.
Luke Fater March 26, 2020
Welcome to a thoroughly 21st-century ark.
coral reefs

The Coral Ark That Hopes to Save Florida’s Ailing Reefs

As a mysterious disease sweeps across the region, dry land might be the last best hope for survival.
Sabrina Imbler February 12, 2020
Banting House.
London, Ontario

Banting House

The "birthplace of insulin," where Sir Frederick Banting realized the hormone could save the lives of Type 1 diabetics.
Sanatorio Durán.
Potrero Cerrado, Costa Rica

Sanatorio Durán (Durán Sanatorium)

This abandoned hospital is one of the most haunted places in Costa Rica.
Long Beach, California

Appu's Cafe

One doctor's retirement plan included opening this award-winning Mexican-Indian eatery on the ground floor of a hospital.
Lion of Bavaria side.
Nafplio, Greece

Lion of Bavaria

This slumbering beast honors the Bavarian soldiers who died in Greece during a 19th-century typhoid outbreak.
Johann the last goat.
Cushendun, Northern Ireland

'Johann'

A memorial to a goat culled during a foot and mouth disease outbreak guards a series of fantastical caves.
Researchers in the Northeast are tracking ticks with a linen cloth and a lint roller.
science

Researchers Track the Tick Boom With Linen Squares and Lint Rollers

The blacklegged bloodsuckers go on three "quests" in their life, each time seeking a blood meal.
Isaac Schultz August 28, 2019
Bunches and bunches of Cavendishes.
food

No, the Banana Apocalypse Is Not Around the Corner

But Colombia’s outbreak of lethal banana fungus is still bad news.
Sabrina Imbler August 16, 2019
Beware the baby spittlebug, harbinger of doom?
insects

Have You Seen Britain's Tiny Potential Tree-Killer, the Adorable Spittlebug?

They're kind of cute, but also carry a plant disease.
Sabrina Imbler July 10, 2019
No chlamydia here!
islands

Found: The Only Wild Koala Population in Australia That Is STI-Free

Chlamydia is a threat to the marsupials, so an island without it is a good sign.
Sabrina Imbler July 2, 2019
David Ebmer uses his lice comb to gather samples from Valdivia's famous sea lions.
insects

Scientists Invented a Lice Comb for Urban Sea Lions in Chile

The utensil helps researchers study marine mammals in the least disruptive way possible.
Danna Staaf June 21, 2019
The Ruins of Lazareto de Isla de Cabras (2015).
Toa Baja, Puerto Rico

Ruins of Lazaretto de Isla de Cabras

The crumbling remnants of this 19th-century quarantine hospital hint at the touristy island's darker past.
Welcome to the MosquitoSphere.
science

Inside Burkina Faso’s Mosquito Dome, Where Venomous Fungus Is Put to the Test

An innovative research center dedicated to blood, biting, and beating back malaria.
Sabrina Imbler June 14, 2019
The <em>Anopheles</em> mosquito, the main carrier of malaria.
insects

How Algeria and Argentina Became Officially Malaria-Free

Public health officials hope the success can be replicated.
Evan Nicole Brown May 30, 2019
The Gilded vectors of disease facade.
London, England

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Vectors of Disease Frieze

The Art Deco artwork depicts gilded carriers of deadly illnesses.
Chapel of El Rey San Pascual.
Olintepeque, Guatemala

Chapel of El Rey San Pascual

Hidden in the highlands of Guatemala, a small shrine venerates a forbidden folk saint.