From vintage wine to restored frescoes, National Geographic gained access to thousands of fragile artifacts that capture the ...

After decades of dead ends, researchers have discovered a combination of genes that can generate new cells in the inner ...

In the sixth episode of our Stones & Bones video series, National Geographic digital editor Nicholas St. Fleur investigates a ...

Glaciers in the high heart of Asia feed its greatest rivers, lifelines for two billion people. Now the ice and snow are ...

Sound effects—called Foley—add crucial value to any film. “The challenge,” says Foley artist John Roesch, “is to create ...

After a fragment was found in 1943 and dated to 500 B.C., the Nok terra-cotta sculptures shook up the Eurocentric academic consensus that no advanced cultures existed in sub-Saharan Africa that early.

Asher Jay grew up thinking she was an animal. Now, she creates global campaigns to save them. We asked the multitalented ...

When Yukinori Kawae explores the Great Pyramids at Giza, he isn’t after treasure or lost chambers—he’s looking for dimensions ...

A probe captures the first ever video images inside a tornado providing a new view of tornadoes: from the inside looking out.

The art of embracing the arrival of darkness was once an everyday practice in the Netherlands — now, it’s being revived by a new generation.

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Sleepy and conservative on the surface, the island nation of Malta is filled with archaeological mysteries that have seeped ...