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a vet examines a lion on a surgery table

Lion undergoes double cataract surgery

By Margherita Bassi

an illustration of a sunscreen bottle shaped like a smartphone drips sunscreen into the palm of a person's hand, with the sun blazing down

Lies about sunscreen do really well on social media

By Mack DeGeurin

a painting of a young woman standing in a clamshell with angels around her

The real woman behind Botticelli’s ‘Birth of Venus’ died at only 23

By Laura Baisas

a black and white photograph of two skeletons in a grave

Oldest traces of plague discovered in prehistoric teens buried in Russia

By Margherita Bassi

a tick in a toilet with a red circle with a line through it

Don’t flush ticks down the toilet

By Laura Baisas

A Raccoon walking along the edge of water fishing for food

Raccoons might be spreading diarrhea-causing bacteria in Japan

a brown tick on a blade of grass

Fact or myth? Ticks can drop out of trees like paratroopers.

By Margherita Bassi

a mosquito biting human skin

Mosquitoes can learn that DEET means dinner is served

By Laura Baisas

Mature woman suffering from hot flashes using hand fan, cooling down at home.

What happens inside your body during a hot flash

By Sarah Lindenfeld Hall

Caution tape blocks the entrance of a bathroom.

7 ways toilets have killed people

By Andrew Coletti

Young black girl with buck teeth eating a big red and white lollipop. She's wearing a yellow shirt with overalls.

No, sugar doesn’t actually cause cavities

Egyptian fruit bat hanging upside down on black background

People keep trespassing near cave filled with bats infected by Ebola’s cousin

Healthcare, hand and iv with a patient in a hospital bed for recovery or rehabilitation closeup. Medical, wellness and treatment with a sick person lying in a clinic on a saline solution drip.

Parasitic sleeping sickness creates ‘invisibility cloak’ to hide in humans for years

An Ixodes tick (left). An Asian tiger mosquito. (right)

What a cold winter means for ticks and mosquitoes

By Laura Baisas

7 wild ways pregnancy changes your body forever

By Jennifer Byrne

Close-up of aedes aegypti mosquito sucking blood from human skin, transmitting dangerous diseases like dengue fever, zika virus, and chikungunya, Chumphon in thailand.

Mosquitoes have been sucking our blood for 1.8 million years

a woman scratches an uncomfortable itch on her forearm

How your body knows when to stop scratching

By Laura Baisas

a large group of yellow bananas

New discovery could help stop banana extinction

By Laura Baisas

Stirling, Scotland - August 1, 2020, old medieval cemetery around Port of Menteith Parish Church

Medieval elite still received fancy burials despite disease stigma

Poison warning label layered atop brown hair

Hair samples reveal the benefits of lead regulation