Growing up, Daisy Hernández was told that her aunt had become ill from eating a bad apple. She watched as her aunt became sicker and sicker, and didn’t learn until years later that she was living with ...

Daisy Hernández’s journey to understand the history and devastating toll of Chagas disease began in her aunt’s hospital room. The following is an excerpt from The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family ...

They skitter and scare, bite and sting, but insects also inspire scientists to develop awesome technologies that can help save people and the planet. The nonfiction book Built Like a Bug: How Insects ...