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Few viruses are as widespread - and sometimes misunderstood - as the human papillomavirus, or HPV.

Our sun can seem deceptively peaceful from Earth, but only because we have the luxury of living 150 million kilometers away.

Running has a huge number of benefits.

Detroit kids 17 and under were nearly three times more likely to be hospitalized for asthma than other kids in Michigan, according to data from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services released on Sept.

On 22 February 1498, a well-weathered mid-40s Christopher Columbus ordained in writing that his estate in the Italian port city of Genoa would be maintained for his family "because from it I came and in it I was born".

The fierce debate over whether Homo sapiens was the first species to bury its dead is far from over.

Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson - the actor who portrayed Ser Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane in the HBO series Game of Thrones - has shown superhuman strength on and off screen.

We've never seen anything quite like this.

You're introduced to someone and your attention catches on their eyes.

We may have a new way of protecting against COVID-19 that checks almost all the boxes: It's effective, it's affordable, it's easy to apply, it's already approved as safe for public use, it's available without prescription ...