Max Barnhart

We regularly answer frequently asked questions about life in the era of COVID-19. If you have a ques...

We regularly answer frequently asked questions about life in the era of COVID-19. If you have a ques...

Acute sleeping sickness – the treatment is almost as horrific as the disease. But now there is encou...

It started out as malaria – or at least that's what her grandparents thought. But there was another ...

The drugs aren't working as well as they used to. That's the sobering takeaway from new research pub...

Back in 2014, dermatologist Bridget McIlwee saw a 3-year-old patient in central Texas with unusual b...

Heman Bekele is not your typical high school student. Rather than spending his free time playing vid...

Newly minted MacArthur Fellow Amber Wutich says anthropology has historically had an "Indiana Jones ...

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Stéphanie Longet is an immunologist and a COVID researcher at the University of Saint-Etienne in Fra...

Do you know someone who tested positive for COVID but never felt a darn thing? Or who says they neve...

A little over a year ago, when the COVID-19 pandemic was still a public health emergency, a little-k...

Jonathan and his twin brother were born in Sierra Leone with clubfeet. His twin died as a baby, and ...

Willa Rubin is a 26-year-old high school teacher in San Antonio, Texas, and like millions of other w...

It started out as malaria – or at least that's what her grandparents thought. But there was another ...

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In 2004, when physician Dr. Wilfried Mutombo began treating patients diagnosed with sleeping sicknes...

The Ugandan Ministry of Education and Sports has ordered schools across the country to end the schoo...

The idea of deadly fungi might conjure up images of poisonous red mushroom caps with distinctive whi...

The day Priti Krishtel found out she won the MacArthur "genius grant" didn't start out as a particul...

We regularly answer frequently asked questions about life during the coronavirus crisis. If you have...

When Bupe Sinkala was diagnosed with HIV, she didn't know what to do. She was planning her wedding –...

One Seattle morning, Carolina Reid sat in a room with nine other volunteers, each waiting to take pa...

What are your chances of catching monkeypox? It's a question that many people are asking. A global o...

Phew, this summer was hot — and some places are still roasting! With people around the world experie...

We regularly answer frequently asked questions about life during the coronavirus crisis. If you have...