It is Mississippi. Editor's Note: Bijal P. Trivedi is a senior science editor at National Geographic and author of Breath from Salt: A Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the ...

When it comes to cardiovascular exercise, running is in a class of its own. It's a sport that has endured millennia—the oldest and once only Olympic event was a sprint known as the stadion ...

If you’ve taken a long flight in a seat with limited recline recently, the discomfort of the experience is likely still painfully fresh. While airline seat size and pitch (aka legroom) have ...

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 ...

As a condition of using these data, you must cite the use of this data set. Such a practice gives credit to data set producers and advances principles of transparency and reproducibility. Other ...

People have lived in dread of monsters since time immemorial. Who wouldn’t be terrified of flesh-eating beasts? Or bloodsucking night stalkers? Or zombies reanimated from the grave? This is the ...

As spring begins, so does a fresh song at daybreak, unique to the season. Just before the sun rises, birds start singing their melodies, creating a chirpy symphony. “It's the epitome of spring ...

The mask can be seen today at the National Museum, Quito ... Pacific dreamThis section of Diego Gutiérrez’s map of America was published in 1562. It represents the area visited by Spaniards ...

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 ...

And they’re likely to live better. Lack of mobility is one of the top reasons that seniors lose independence, according to the National Institute on Aging, and it’s also closely linked to ...

“Everybody’s got a story to tell.” Sharon Guynup is a National Geographic explorer and a global fellow at the Wilson Center. She focuses on wildlife and trafficking. Editor's note: This ...

Photographer and Costa ambassador Andy Mann ventures to a Chilean archipelago that draws comparisons to the Galápagos.