Nearly 60 square miles burned and 100,000 people were displaced. Now many are holding on to what they found—in their homes ...

Scientists have discovered that gut-born bacteria may hold the secret for treatments of everything from IBD to Parkinson’s ...

Rapper Bad Bunny may have shone a light on Puerto Rico’s cultural riches recently, but the Caribbean island has long been a ...

Few scenes in the Christian imagination are as iconic as the three travelers kneeling before the infant Jesus, their camels ...

Low levels of vitamin D seem to raise your risk of heart attack but scientists are still figuring out why—and whether ...

A natural experiment in a national park in Patagonia shows how the return of a large predator can reshape an ecosystem.

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

The pickleback (a shot of whisky followed by a shot of pickle brine) may have had its heyday in the 2000s, but pickle-forward ...

For deep reef divers, descending into the ocean’s mesophotic layer can feel like exploring the moon. Discovering never-before ...

Your pillow is one of the most powerful tools to help you fall asleep, stay asleep—and even ease your pain and improve ...

In May of 1963, National Geographic photographer and correspondent Barry C. Bishop was part of the first American team to ...