A police officer inspects a fishing boat in Thailand. Dario Pignatelli/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
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Thursday
Women from a traditional sea-harvesting community fish in Mozambique. Michael D. Kock/Nature hide caption
Wednesday
A Syrian boy in a clinic in Aleppo receives an injection for the "Aleppo button" — one of the names used for the welts caused by leishmaniasis. Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Found in Botswana, the Lesedi la Rona diamond is up for auction and valued at $70 million. Seth Wenig/AP hide caption
Tuesday
Sweet potato evangelist Maria Isabel Andrade drives around Mozambique in her orange Toyota Land Cruiser in 2012. She is one of four researchers honored with the World Food Prize for promoting the crop to combat malnutrition. Dan Charles/NPR hide caption
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in a lab in Recife, Brazil. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption
How An Electric Shock Could One Day Protect You From Zika
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which have been known to carry the Zika virus, buzz in a laboratory in Cucuta, Colombia. Ricardo Mazalan/AP hide caption
'Nobody Is Immune': Bracing For Zika's First Summer In The U.S.
Monday
Evelyn Sokpo (from left), 12; Sankay Diallo, 13; and Rita Swen, 13. Clair MacDougall for NPR hide caption
Sunday
A team of volunteers cooks for African migrants living at a camp in their town of Paso Canoas, Costa Rica. Rolando Arrieta /NPR hide caption
Caitlin McConnico tweeted us this picture taken in early June while camping at Makgadikgadi Pans National Park in Botswana. Courtesy of Caitlin McConnico Photography hide caption
Friday
Solar-powered lights make a dramatic difference in the lives of Tanzanians who had no electricity. Rachel Ambrose/Courtesy of Off-Grid Electric hide caption
A screwworm larva grasps the flesh in a wound with its mouth's tusklike protrusions and screws itself in. Science Source hide caption
"It required a change in thinking. A change that forced public health workers to stop treating it as a medical problem but rather as a human behavior problem." - Richard Thaler Sandra Jones hide caption
Richard Thaler: How Are Health Workers Putting An End To Guinea Worms?
"We're on the verge of a whole new social science. It's a social science that recognizes...the complexity of the human mind." - Sendhil Mullainathan James Duncan Davidson/TED/James Duncan Davidson hide caption