Despite decades of efforts focused on mosquito eradication, drug therapies, and vaccines, malaria remains hard to beat, especially in Africa.

In the dead of night, a woman digs a small hole beneath a tree behind her house. Her movements are practiced, deliberate, and most importantly—silent. Inside a nondescript tin container lie the pills ...

Female Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes transmit malaria parasites between humans. This particular female glows green due to a diet containing fluorescein, which appears green under ultraviolet light ...