Reuben Wu, a British photographer and visual artist based in Chicago, was first introduced to National Geographic as most⁠ people are: When he was a child, he enjoyed looking at the magazines ...

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 ...

A radical idea to support the recovery of damaged ecosystems has been gathering steam: resurrect species that have gone extinct and reintroduce them to the wild. Proponents of “de-extinction ...

Diagnoses have climbed by 175 percent in just the last decade—with the greatest increases in girls and women. Here’s how our understanding of autism is changing. Girls and women are being ...

A scientist examines an axolotl x-ray at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico City. What’s more, understanding axolotl genetics could ...

New Guinea is home to some of the world’s most toxic birds. Why they contain poison, and how they withstand it is still a source of scientific mystery. The variable pitohui, a poisonous bird ...

An explosion on Mount Spurr could generate massive cloud of ash, which could mess with airplanes and cause issues for humans. For the last year, Alaska's Mount Spurr has been showing signs of a ...

For the occasion, we’ve created the first ever “flip” issue of National Geographic—essentially two magazines in one—to revisit environmental milestones of the past half century and to ...

Two million years ago, on the fringe of some of the northernmost land on Earth just 500 miles from the North Pole, the landscape couldn’t have looked more different from today’s polar desert.

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 ...

If someone says “You’re glowing!” you may be in love. Or, more likely, you’re a marine animal. It’s a separate process from biofluorescence, in which blue light hits the surface of an ...