For five short December days each year, sunlight pierces the heart of Newgrange, a 5,200-year-old tomb whose perfect ...
“All the Fermi Paradox tells you is that civilizations are rare. It doesn’t tell you why they’re rare,” says Ian Crawford, a ...
A new analysis aims to answer a longstanding question about why the plague reached Europe when it did—and why it spread so ...
National Geographic Explorer Peter Campell provides an inside look at the early stages of a heritage crime investigation.
When weird fungal epidemics crop up in far-flung places, scientists work together to unravel how the microscopic murderers ...
Experts say the benefits of the heart-healthy "portfolio" diet are exponential—from lowering your cholesterol to reducing ...
National Geographic Explorer Paolo Verzone provides a rare peek inside a stellarator, an experiment that aims to give the world near-limitless clean energy.