The Age of AI will rely on massive volumes of data that can be easily stored and retrieved—and bioscience may have an ingenious solution. A scientist examines a DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) profile on ...

A new study sheds light on how these reptiles become “mummies” and paints a picture of what these ancient animals looked like. Paul Sereno and his colleagues spent years painstakingly preparing this ...

The signs were there but subtle. Dustin Chandler never did his homework. He was labeled lazy at school. It wasn’t until years later when his mother, now working at a pediatric clinic, watched him ...

WASHINGTON, DC — Californian Priya Talreja, a Fremont native has been named one of just five researchers nationwide to receive the highly coveted 2025 Fulbright-National Geographic Award. The $20,000 ...

These over-50 champs—and a growing body of research—show what we gain by staying active later in life. Nora Langdon, 82, started powerlifting in her 60s and quickly got hooked. Over the past two ...

What can you do right now to ensure that you live a longer, healthier life? National Geographic Explorer Dan Buettner can answer that question better than anyone.

Decades ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological success has prompted a dire problem—and a race to save many of them from genetic ...

From looping hallways to echoing stairwells, eerie architecture taps into ancient survival instincts—and exposes how our ...

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 ...

A new documentary from National Geographic Pristine Seas and Oceans North spotlights how Inuit and Cree communities are creating marine protected areas in Canada’s north. A family of polar bears walks ...

From primal survival to modern technology, the brain has carried us across millions of years of change. Yet the instincts that kept us alive long ago still shape us today. The Philippine island living ...

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 ...