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There are 1,248 locations on the World Heritage List, from ancient cities to natural wonders. Visiting them is growing in ...

The autoimmune disorder destroys the body’s ability to produce insulin. Some patients in experimental trials have gotten it ...

Here's how the therapy containing estrogen and progesterone initially got a bad rap—and what the research says about its ...

With more than 4,600 miles of coastline, Brazil has some of the best beaches in the world, from the island paradise of Lopes ...

This still image of a wolf at night comes from a camera trap, which was part of an experiment investigating wolf behavior in ...

Home to four ecosystems and countless endangered species, Highlands Hammock State Park’s origin is a story of grass-roots ...

A new study published in Current Biology documented the queen of an ant species dethroning the queen of another species using ...

Traveling the Atlantic highway from Florida to Maine, Anastasia Samoylova found a country in the midst of change, loss—and ...

The fertile backcountry of rural Tennessee offers a vital lifeline to the Amish, a deeply traditional community living apart ...

This Los Angeles neighbourhood is an enclave of mochi ball bakeries, manga bookshops and cool karaoke bars where you can sing ...

The Serengeti is rightfully popular, but Tanzania has 23 national parks, many of which offer very different safari ...