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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 ...

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.

Over many years of geological time, opal is slowly formed as many small spheres of silica (what glass is made of) ...

To build a spacecraft, you need an extremely clean construction zone. That’s essential if you’re sending a robot to another world to search for signs of microscopic alien life. One wouldn’t want to ...

Thousands of solar tornadoes swirl above the sun’s surface at any given moment. These remarkable photos give us a glimpse at these stunning cosmic phenomena. The entire disc of the sun captured on ...

Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed flourishing communities. Alamosaurus was one of the last dinosaurs from ...

Top-seeded Philadelphia Union survived a huge scare before opening their Major League Soccer playoff campaign with a nervy victory over Chicago Fire on Sunday. Philadelphia, the Supporters Shield ...

Is this Central Asia's best-preserved medieval settlement? See Khiva in pictures Once a crucial caravan stop on the Silk Road, Khiva is one of Central Asia’s best-preserved medieval settlements. The ...

In 1797 the “petticoat band” showed up to vote for the New Jersey state legislature, but only on a technicality. Their impact sent lawmakers into a scramble to shut them out. POLLS APARTHoward Pyle’s ...

Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with 28,000 other fossils. The skull cap of 'Java Man' was discovered by Eugène ...

The carnivore diet promises clarity and quick results—but experts say the long-term effects on your heart, brain, and gut could be far more complicated. Cutting out plants can alter the body’s biology ...