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The peaks surrounding Scandinavian Mountains Airport take in some of the best ski resorts in both Norway and Sweden — perfect ...

Rooted in early Christian tradition, Candlemas marks the presentation of Jesus and purification of the Virgin Mary at Herod's ...

Researchers in Israel dug for years for evidence—and what they found may have implications for modern residents of the region ...

Every winter, a marvelous spectacle occurs as hundreds of thousands of butterflies travel south across Taiwan in one of the world’s most rare migrations.

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Seaweed bathing in Ireland, a trek through Africa’s first designated wilderness quiet park—we asked National Geographic staff ...

Scientists have long observed that cancer patients have a lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease. New research reveals a possible ...

While much of the country’s attention will be on the East Coast to mark the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of ...

About 700 million years ago, Earth was entombed in a veneer of ice hundreds of feet thick—a frozen state scientists refer to ...

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