Julia Child was famous for her larger-than-life personality and her passion for French cuisine. Her favorite restaurants ...

This year's standouts include top scholars and athletes, several musicians, artists and social activists, a few immigrants, a ...

From the vanishing of 10 billion snow crabs in Alaska's Bering Sea to the first mammal officially declared extinct due to ...

Stacks of past issues of National Geographic magazines against a white background. In Conkin’s novel Community Board, the lead character retreats from an imploded marriage to her parents' empty ...

As cold and flu season ramps up, National Geographic spoke with several experts to gain a better understanding of the various types of pneumonia, and the risks of contracting different forms of ...

(See National Geographic’s first map of Pluto.) Then, in 2005, Mike Brown, a professor of astronomy at Caltech, crashed the party upon discovering Eris, similar in size to Pluto and also in the ...

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.

These behaviors can further jeopardize your health. Photograph by Brian Finke, Nat Geo Image Collection At Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Luke E. Wielechowski demonstrates the MEG ...

Two-thirds of the way through the year, 2023 seems destined to be remembered as the year that extreme weather events left the Northern Hemisphere reeling. According to the European Union’s ...

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 ...

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 research reveals that people aren’t just imagining it—dogs and their owners share striking similarities, from matching hairstyles to mirrored temperaments. Hope, an Afghan hound, sports ...