Hungarian biologist Tibor Gánti is an obscure figure. Now, more than a decade after his death, his ideas about how life began ...

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Greenville—home to Michelin’s North America headquarters and the setting for the next season of Top Chef—has transformed from ...

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Long before Western astrology, the Chinese zodiac helped organize years, beliefs, and social life. Here’s how the system of 12 animals evolved over the centuries.

Scientists in Belgium—that celebrated bastion of ancient beer culture—are harnessing genetic breakthroughs and machine learning to reimagine how great booze gets built. Here’s how their revelations in ...

Rafting the Urubamba River reveals a side of the Sacred Valley few hikers ever see, with trails etched into the hillsides, birds rising from the reeds and ancient, glacier-crowned peaks standing ...

In subzero winds, hypothermia announces itself in small, easy-to-miss ways. Here’s what one Nat Geo Explorer does to combat it in some of the coldest places on Earth.

Decades ago, doctors created a test to determine which breast cancer patients should receive hormone therapy. Now, researchers are using the same tactics to advance prostate cancer treatment.

Just moving out the moon-bound rocket to the launch pad was an incredible engineering feat. Watch how NASA got it done.

A new wave of research is showing what the old gym myths about stretching got wrong—and what you really need to do to reap its benefits.

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to ...