Julia Flynn Siler, an author and journalist who is also a chorister at St. John’s Church, recently wrote about the health benefits of darkness for National Geographic.

Photograph by RONAN DONOVAN A version of this story appears in the June 2025 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Kennedy Human Rights Journalism Award.

The winning image, which Kevin himself selected from among the ... Bird Lore: Of the 350-plus species of hummingbirds, most have small geographic ranges. Bucking the trend is the White-necked Jacobin, ...

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 ...

Twenty-eight Oregon seniors have won one of the most prestigious academic awards for high schoolers, the $2,500 National ...

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 ...

Taking a blobfish out of water is like “heating something that’s glued together and the glue starts to melt.” The blobfish went viral with this photo, but underwater they look like a ...

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 ...

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 ...