Learn why scientists still aren’t sure why humans are the only primates with very little body hair.

Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay.

Abandoned cattle ranches cover huge swathes of Brazil; empty, degraded land, where the soil is like dust and any form of ...

Vaughn immersed herself in research while preparing to write the novel. “I read a bunch of history of the natural sciences, about Darwin and the impact of his ideas,” she says. “And I kept my Sibley ...

Learn more about this ancient chamber and what our ancestors may have used if for 35,000 years ago.

The perfect holiday gift for outdoors folks is hard to find. Everyone works hard to try and find that perfect holiday offering. There are many specific interests and outdoor activities, and each of ...

The perfect holiday gift for outdoors folks is hard to find. Everyone works hard to try and find that perfect holiday offering. There are many specific interests and outdoor activities, and each of ...

Preston Cook’s love of the iconic raptor has led to a collection of 40,000 objects and, now, a quest to finally bring the ...

Washington became the first state to recognize and regulate human composting as an alternative to burial or cremation.

She teamed the look with sheer tight and simple black stilettos. Her blonde hair was worn up in a bun with an adorable black ...

This story originally published in the June 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the fall of ... Learning to lie is a natural stage in child development. Kang Lee, a psychologist at ...

When we slow down, stop the busywork, and take in beautiful natural surroundings ... Olmsted was exaggerating; his claim was based less on science than on intuition. But it was an intuition ...