Researchers found one sable shearwater on Australia's Lord Howe Island with nearly 900 pieces of plastic in its stomach.

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The little red book, which contains Harry Houdini's recently deciphered notes, charts his rise as a performer and the key ...

Hidden beneath the neon-splashed modernity of the fast-paced Japanese city lies millennia of history in the form of ancient ...

The classic fish soup was born in France’s vibrant port city, where the most feted versions can still be found — alongside ...

Christmas Island red crabs are famous throughout Australia and the world for their bright red color and for their spectacular annual migration to the sea. Millions of crabs become rivers of red as ...

Curie continued to rack up impressive achievements for women in science. In 1906, she became the first woman physics professor at the Sorbonne. In 1909, she was given her own lab at the University of ...

Lewis was born on February 21, 1940, in rural Alabama. His parents were sharecroppers who worked on a farm picking cotton for ...

One day soon, parasitic mites could accidentally arrive in North America. It's a doomsday scenario for pollinators that ...

A new cache of cuneiform tablets reveals the everyday lives of people in the Hittite Empire—from religious rituals to a ...

Here’s what to know about the new park’s fascinating geologic history—and how this “sky island” shaped the incredible ...

In this archival feature, life flows at the pace of a dugout canoe as National Geographic charts a journey along this great ...