Tonic water elicits images of sparkling drinks and stirred concoctions, but it has a history that reaches beyond the bar. Its roots go back centuries, starting with the Andes and the cinchona tree, ...

Can a medicine cause a war? The treatment for Malaria may just have. Can a medicine cause a war? When chemists isolated a new compound from the bark of a South American tree, they had no idea they ...

Save the tonic for gin. As the COVID-19 pandemic ravages the country, myths and junk science continue to flood social media. The latest bunk idea? That tonic water can help fight the coronavirus. Here ...

Malaria is one of the world's "big-three" infectious diseases. In 2020 alone, it infected roughly 240,000 million people and caused 630,000 deaths worldwide. Quinine, an alkaloid derived from the ...

Nearly 15 years ago, one woman tilted the staid world of dry gin on its axis. Lesley Gracie—master distiller for William Grant & Sons—added cucumber and rose to 11 more conventional botanicals and ...