Around the world, trail designers are quietly employing surprising techniques to engineer awe. You’ve probably felt it ...

Hamilton, the zoologist who dedicated his life to saving Africa’s elephants from systematic slaughter—despite being nearly ...

From custom gene editing to a discovery that could help stop pancreatic cancer before it starts, these advances offer a ...

National Geographic Explorer Peter Campell provides an inside look at the early stages of a heritage crime investigation.

When the Berlin Wall went up overnight, National Geographic correspondents were on hand to document a city that became a ...

“Redheads are not going extinct,” says Katerina Zorina-Lichtenwalter, a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Behavioral ...

Calakmul remained relatively undisturbed until gum harvesters in Mexico led an American botanist to them in 1931. Here’s what ...

World Atlas has named the seven most festive downtown areas in Florida for the 2025 Christmas and holiday season.

According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...

Five centuries ago, a single misprinted image in a German Bible quietly rewired how Europeans pictured the world and their ...

A backwards 1525 Bible map helped shape modern borders, influencing how we imagine territory, nations, and political space ...

The National Geographic Society’s CEO reflects on its long history of global exploration and invites a future inspiring the ...