Reyhaneh Maktoufi loves a good story. She uses it to make sense of the world. Her own storytelling style leans into humor. “As most people who are artists will tell you, I often scribbled in a ...

Aerial view of the Amazonian jungle on a flight from La Paz to Rurrenabaque, 2014. OpenAI has announced the winners of a its 'OpenAI to Z Challenge' that hopes to help archaeologists cut through the ...

Miracles by definition defy science. But a new research effort attempts to understand what our experiences with them do to the brain. A nun holds an image of the Lady of Guadalupe while waiting for ...

Hatton declined to say what buyers could expect to bid on at Geek Week 2026. “Space exploration was my first auction and my first passion,” she told National Geographic. “I love the history of science ...

We know next to nothing about 99.999 percent of the seafloor. How one researcher plans to democratize deep-sea exploration. Katy Croff Bell, who has been an ocean researcher for 25 years, is working ...

NASA's Artemis II mission could happen as early as February. Here's why this flight will be one to watch. The Artemis II crew may be able to see parts of the moon humans haven’t experienced before; up ...

Science is helping to create new training methods and amazing performances by athletes such as swimmer Katie Ledecky. How ...

Scientists are using lasers, satellites and even sound to determine what is falling from the sky—but the best tool may still be the human eye. It is easy to tell at a glance whether or not it's ...

National Geographic Explorers participating in the National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Ocean Expeditions are conducting scientific research across Earth’s most crucial ecosystem. Through ...

Older, Faster, Stronger is a National Geographic exploration into the science of what it takes to live a longer and more active life. In evolutionary terms, humans are pretty new at getting old. Since ...

A sediment-washing “bubbler” helped researchers recover 65.5-million-year-old teeth that illuminate how early primate ...

Discover the science behind human endurance and how our evolutionary adaptations give us the surprising ability to outlast even horses in long-distance races. Horses excel at short sprints, but in ...