National Geographic Explorer Peter Campell provides an inside look at the early stages of a heritage crime investigation.

When weird fungal epidemics crop up in far-flung places, scientists work together to unravel how the microscopic murderers ...

Experts say the benefits of the heart-healthy "portfolio" diet are exponential—from lowering your cholesterol to reducing ...

Here’s what science actually shows about declining testosterone in young adults, and why treatment is rarely the first answer ...

National Geographic Explorer Paolo Verzone provides a rare peek inside a stellarator, an experiment that aims to give the world near-limitless clean energy.

The researchers described the scene in a recent publication, calling it “an extraordinary colonial spider community.” The ...

New research has charted the major developmental stages in the brain’s wiring—from early-life pruning to late-life network ...

Some say the devil himself created the Accursed Mountains, otherwise known as the albanian alps, which form a fierce wall ...

This month will bring some striking celestial sights, including one of the year’s best meteor showers and a glowing ...

What can we learn from seeing the world up close? Life at even the smallest size, like the facets of an insect’s eye, can ...

Researchers are investigating whether the drug could be used in mainstream medicine—with and without its hallucinatory ...

From custom gene editing to a discovery that could help stop pancreatic cancer before it starts, these advances offer a ...