This film features over 2,000 flags, set in motion to Ludwig van Beethoven, centuries in the making. | Continue reading
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Government funds prop up more than half of fishing in the open ocean, a new study reveals. | Continue reading
A Harvard-affiliated Canadian company is making a liquid fuel that is carbon neutral, and they hope the economics will be in their favor. | Continue reading
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Inspired by nature, Louis Michaud is on an unlikely quest to pull energy out of thin air. | Continue reading
On National Walking Day, Paul Salopek reveals unexpected rewards of taking to your feet. | Continue reading
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Scholars will take a fresh look at the authenticity of a rock purporting to reveal the fate of the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island. | Continue reading
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It’s not all bottles and straws—the patch is mostly abandoned fishing gear. | Continue reading
Wild armadillo meat is popular in Brazil, but a new study shows those who eat it put themselves at risk of contracting leprosy. | Continue reading
The Pony Express operated for less than two years, but its legend—burnished by Buffalo Bill Cody—lives on. | Continue reading
The revolutionary physicist used his imagination rather than fancy math to come up with his most famous and elegant equation. | Continue reading
A mysterious killer is claiming the mighty baobab. | Continue reading
While trapped inside Mexico's Sistema Huautla by torrential flooding, cavers and scientists discovered new connections—expanding the map of the Western Hemisphere's deepest cave. | Continue reading
Bottlenose dolphins in Australia call each other by name and touch frequently to maintain alliances with other males, a new study says. | Continue reading
Two landmark discoveries reveal organic carbon on the red planet, shaping the future hunt for life on Mars. | Continue reading
Sixty-five years after the first climbers summited Mount Everest, we look back on our most stunning maps of the mountain. | Continue reading
The unlucky creature is now a boon to scientists studying the evolution of arachnid behavior. | Continue reading
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More than 6,000 maps from the magazine's 130-year-long history have been digitally compiled for the first time. | Continue reading
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An ancient skin-eating fungus is killing off hundreds of species—and the Korean War may have helped spread it. | Continue reading
South Georgia Island near Antarctica is now teeming with native wildlife, thanks to an effort to remove invasive rats that had been devouring birds. | Continue reading
Egyptologist and National Geographic explorer Sarah Parcak uses high-flying cameras to reveal lost cities and save ancient treasures from looters. | Continue reading
Someone butchered a rhinoceros in the Philippines hundreds of thousands of years before modern humans arrived—but who? | Continue reading
A multipronged high-tech system installed in a South African reserve has helped cut the number of poached rhinos to zero. | Continue reading