Does it sometimes seem like every single inch of Earth has been discovered? Far from it. But scientists are working on it.

The World Health Organization estimates that ... “Everybody’s got a story to tell.” Sharon Guynup is a National Geographic explorer and a global fellow at the Wilson Center.

Atop Mount Nemrut lies what some call the eighth wonder of the world: a religious sanctuary of 10 colossal statues surrounding a mound believed to hold the tomb of an ancient king. These ...

A battle over plastic—a material so prolific the UN calls the 90 percent of it that ends up as trash a pollution crisis—is under way in Florida. Coral Gables, a small city of 51,000 people ...

In this 17th-century map, with top facing south ... At the time, Europeans were grappling with a sea change in their vision of the world, one that was expanding dramatically with increasing ...

(see a video on APR by the National Geographic Society ... We associate this part of the world with rugged individualism, but brandings are remarkably communitarian rituals, willing exchanges ...

The InSAR Selected Glacier Site Velocity Maps are produced from image pairs measured by the German Aerospace Center's (DLR) twin satellites TerraSAR-X / TanDEM-X (TSX / TDX). The measurements in this ...

“It was literally out of this world,” says Costello ... Photograph by Amy Toensing, National Geographic Image Collection But do any of these inflammation-hacking techniques help accelerate ...