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In the summer of 2019, ecologist Patrick Sullivan and a Super Cub plane pilot navigated over the narrow valleys of the Brooks Range in northern Alaska, winding toward the remote headwaters of the ...

National Geographic recently published an article about the fishing village of Mui Ne, which three decades ago was a ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole. Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led ...

Carley D. Thornell is a Massachusetts-based writer specializing in travel. Her work has appeared in Business Insider, USA ...

National Geographic Explorer-at-Large Bob Ballard revisits the Iron Bottom Sound—rediscovering vessels, and making new finds. The IJN Teruzuki fought fiercely in the first and second naval battles of ...

The race is on to harness the near-infinite power of nuclear fusion—by building a star on Earth. And scientists are closer than you might think. Nuclear fusion in the sun occurs when hydrogen is ...

Now You Don’t debuts next week, audiences will be treated to a stream of futuristic settings. Even though they wouldn't look ...

For 5,000 years scholars, generals, and mystics have been fascinated by the Egyptian pyramids. That obsession persists in the ...

As NASA prepared astronauts for its second mission into space, National Geographic had exclusive behind-the-scenes access for ...

Excerpted from Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations by Sam Kean. Copyright ...

Why is the Leaders’ Summit of COP30 important for your UPSC exam? What significance do topics such as net-zero emissions, Mid-Day Meal Scheme, and regional variations in HIV prevalence hold for both ...