A significant correction must be made by the end of the year for navigation technology to keep working smoothly. | Continue reading
Work has begun on a 116-mile long fence on the Polish-Belarusian border. Scientists call it an environmental “disaster.” | Continue reading
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The discovery may actually signal good news for both species, experts say. | Continue reading
An Amish refuge, a college town, and the “Ellis Island of the South” are resettling more refugees per-capita than any other U.S. cities. | Continue reading
The latest measurements with the Hubble Space Telescope suggest the universe is expanding faster than scientists' models predict—a hint that some unknown ingredient could be at work in the cosmos. | Continue reading
People around the world celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ on December 25. Here’s why—and the history of its iconic symbols from Christmas trees to Santa Claus. | Continue reading
Climbing trees, stealing from squirrels—skilled collectors are becoming rarer, undermining the nation’s ambitious tree planting goals. | Continue reading
Astronomer Frank Drake came up with the famous formula as he prepared for a last-minute meeting in 1961. It still guides the search for intelligent life beyond Earth. | Continue reading
If confirmed, the temblor would be a shock to geologists who thought rocks that deep inside Earth were too putty-like to break and shake. | Continue reading
The discovery that indris sing in rhythms like the tick-tick of a metronome or the stomp-stomp-clap of Queen’s “We Will Rock You” suggests a trait we thought was “uniquely human” may not be so exceptional after all. | Continue reading
A National Geographic photographer recounts his fight to escape the world's deepest cave. | Continue reading
In addition to driving new cases of diabetes, the virus may be directly damaging the pancreas in ways that could lead to chronic inflammation and even cancer. | Continue reading
When the Nazis captured a heavy water facility in Norway, the chemist who helped design the plant took action. | Continue reading
Go in search of the ancient royal capital that spawned our favorite night of the dead. | Continue reading
Explore this graphic to see how and where countless bits of cosmic debris from the solar system’s formation are trapped in the gravity of the sun and the planets. | Continue reading
The fossil is one of two newfound cousins of the bizarre dinosaur that together shed new light on how these predators spread across ancient Earth. | Continue reading
Fascinated by decay, one French photographer traveled to more than 700 forgotten sites. | Continue reading
Small, battery-powered planes are on the way. But building large, zero-emission airliners is a daunting challenge. | Continue reading
Nobody in my past was hugely famous, at least that I know of. I vaguely recall that an ancestor of mine who shipped over on the Mayflower distinguished himself by falling out of the ship and having to get fished out of the water. He might be notable, I guess, but hardly famous. | Continue reading
A multiyear experiment made yeast clusters much bigger and tougher, hinting at how the first complex life on Earth came to be. | Continue reading
Bigfin reef squid may engage in paternal care, a practice more often seen in monogamous vertebrates, such as birds. | Continue reading
NASA’s Perseverance rover will cache this pristine sample and others for return to Earth, which will “change everything for Mars science.” | Continue reading
But areas outside the city remained flooded long after Hurricane Ida passed, even as its remnant took a high toll in the Northeast. | Continue reading
National Geographic finds continued animal suffering and exploitation in these YouTube videos. Here's what's being done months after the platform pledged to take swift action. | Continue reading
The five scenarios that form the backbone of the latest IPCC report tell radically different stories about humanity’s future. | Continue reading
Spurred by the pandemic, scientists are studying the benefits of intranasal vaccines and what makes them more potent than shots in the arm. | Continue reading
Researchers find that people who only suffered mild infections can be plagued with life-altering and sometimes debilitating cognitive deficits. | Continue reading
This controversial global industry claims that dolphins help treat those with autism and other disorders. Even some of its proponents say there’s no science behind it. | Continue reading
New ultraprecise measurements show that the asteroid Bennu has a higher chance than thought of impacting our planet sometime in the next 300 years, NASA says. | Continue reading
The mesh-like fossil would push back the oldest known animal on Earth by more than 300 million years. But like many claims of very old life, the study is kicking up lively debate. | Continue reading
A new study detected coronavirus antibodies in 40 percent of deer tested this year. Here’s why that matters. | Continue reading
Few marine organisms can survive the toxic low-oxygen conditions of dead zones. Here’s how our agricultural practices make them worse. | Continue reading
The plastic pollution crisis has been widely blamed on a handful of Asian countries, but new research shows just how much the U.S. contributes. | Continue reading
The highly intelligent birds gather around their fallen comrades, but why might surprise you. | Continue reading
A rare tear-feeding moth discovered in Brazil could help explain the bizarre behavior and whether it harms the birds. | Continue reading
Looking inside the red planet will help scientists better understand how Mars formed and became the hostile, rusty desert we see today. | Continue reading
The hidden fragment, dating as old as 1.3 billion years, is helping scientists trace the history of the mysterious “lost continent” of Zealandia. | Continue reading
To our eyes, they often are a blur. But high-speed cameras show us what makes these birds perfect flying machines. | Continue reading
The results from the 1962 Starfish Prime test serve as a warning of what might happen if Earth’s magnetic field gets blasted again with high doses of radiation. | Continue reading
The COVID-19 pandemic brought mRNA vaccines into the limelight. But the technology may also prove to be a powerful weapon against hard-to-treat cancers. | Continue reading
Abdel Kader Haidara had made it his life's work to document, as never before, Mali's achievements as an ancient center of progressive thought. When the jihadists came, he led the rescue operation to save 350,000 manuscripts. | Continue reading
Using crowdsourced data from home air quality monitors, scientists found that vulnerable people and communities of color are disproportionately exposed to air pollution from firework celebrations. | Continue reading
The parasite that causes toxoplasmosis could play a bigger role in animal behavior than we thought, according to a first-of-its-kind study in Kenya. | Continue reading
Hidden down a well for decades, the stunningly complete cranium is stirring debate about the increasing number of fossils that don’t neatly fit in the classic human origin story. | Continue reading
The slow quake—the longest ever recorded—ended in disaster in 1861. Experts are racing to find today’s equivalents. | Continue reading
Tourists flock to South Dakota’s massive presidential portraits. How they got there is a complex tale of land grabs, egos, and foiled movie scenes. | Continue reading