Greeks don’t hike. You’ll hear this everywhere you go in Greece — usually from the locals themselves. They can’t see the point, apparently; uses up too much beach time. If that’s the ...

Spending time in nature is important for your mental health. But studies show that even just listening to birds singing can ease symptoms of anxiety and depression. A European robin, Erithacus ...

While investigating the origin of the rings, National Geographic Explorer and photographer Laurent Ballesta and his team found a riot of colorful sea life, including yellow coral that is seldom ...

A new study finds that microplastics and nanoplastics accumulate at higher levels in the brain than in the liver and kidney. A colorized computed tomography (CT) scan of the brain revealing blood ...

After decades of hype and setbacks, scientists have made impressive progress into tricking stem cells into repairing organs. Stem cells (like the ones above, growing in petri dishes) are able to ...

The mountains had been slowly sinking until their summits were ... But it might be something different.” The nonprofit National Geographic Society, committed to illuminating and protecting ...

The bounty of the Gulf of Maine. The sea within a sea, as it’s often called, is a body of water that extends 36,000 square miles along the eastern seaboard of North America, from Cape Cod ...

As scientists question the rise in early colon cancer cases, a new study is offering some potential answers. Colored scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a macrophage white blood cell (center ...

The story is true. The German sub officially was known as U-166. It was among a fleet of 23 sent to the Atlantic Ocean in the ...

Blame cell death and fungi for brain decay, not TikTok. TikTok won't really make your brain rot. That doesn't happen until after death. While most brains rot quickly, researchers have found a ...

Researchers have located the wrecks of two long-lost military vehicles on the seafloor a few miles from San Diego: an ...