The French Foreign Legion offers a brutal clean slate: you hand over your name, your past, and your paperwork, and you get ...

Scientists say that the fires ravaging the western United States are burning differently these days. Documenting the aftermath requires a new approach as well. In a conventional photograph of ...

The Red Sea was thought to host ecosystems resilient to warming waters, but a 2023 heatwave proves otherwise. A juvenile Red Sea anemonefish, also called a clownfish, looks out from between the ...

It sounds backward, but research suggests a cup of coffee followed by a short nap could sharpen focus and fight fatigue. Coffee before sleep sounds counterintuitive, but scientists say this unusual ...

Some sixty years after her grandmother discovered “Nutcracker Man,” Louise Leakey unearths his long-lost hand—reviving a family debate about ancient toolmaking. The fossilized hand of a male ...

Searching for your next great escape or inspiration for an upcoming adventure? National Geographic today revealed its top picks for BEST OF THE WORLD, the brand's annual list of the most awe-inspiring ...

This story originally published in the July 1906 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. Looking back to that period, many years ago, when the finger ...

Maynard Owen Williams was National Geographic's first foreign correspondent, and in 1923 he was on hand for an event the entire world was eagerly anticipating—the opening of King Tut's burial chamber.

Next time you're on social media consider this: one study evaluating influencer posts on Instagram found that 86 percent of nutrition content didn’t cite any scientific sources—and other research ...

EAU CLAIRE (WQOW) - For nearly a decade, teams of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire have been visiting Eastern Europe to map Holocaust graves. Now, their work can be seen on ...

The one-hour documentary, from Academy Award ®-nominated filmmaker Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa, Jane Root’s Nutopia, and Chris Hemsworth and Ben Grayson’s Wild State, premieres Nov. 23 at 9/8c on ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A Walnut Creek native made history on Wednesday as the first to descend Mount Everest's notoriously narrow north face route. Jim Morrison, 50, accomplished the feat at 7:45 p.m. local ...