Throughout our history, the magazine’s storytelling has relied on photographers—and on artists such as Fernando Gomez Baptista.

The winners of the 51st annual Nikon Small World photo contest offer a glimpse at some of the tiniest—and most beautiful—parts of the natural world.

Our 2026 edition of Best of the World is coming soon. From a horseback safari in Kenya to river rafting in West Virginia, ...

Tourists swim in a cenote, or flooded cave, outside Playa del Carmen, Mexico. The Yucatan Peninsula is dotted with thousands of these interconnected limestone caves, which are fed by a ...

The rhythmic click of needles. The softness of yarn running over fingertips. The satisfying logic of knit, purl, repeat. Knitting—and other so-called “grandma hobbies”—is making a comeback, especially ...

The discovery of a stone long overlooked in a German museum suggests that Ice Age communities experimented with vivid hues far earlier than scholars believed. A stone artifact from near the end of the ...

Beside the ochre-colored gorges and turquoise coastlines of Western Australia lies a surprising hue: fuchsia pink. The state’s pink salt lakes have been a startling part of the landscape for thousands ...

For a sense of how truly enormous the FIFA World Cup is, consider this statistic. The last Super Bowl was watched by 128 million people, while the last World Cup Final was watched by 1.5 billion ...

Coral bleaching isn’t just an ocean crisis. Here’s how the global event endangers food security, local jobs—and the land itself. Sea water divides the sunset and a ghost land of corals in New Ireland, ...

From detox diets to spot-reducing belly fat, some health fads just refuse to die. Here’s why these myths endure—and what science actually says about them. A runner sips a green smoothie before ...

A new book argues that the mother of Jesus was a powerhouse in her own right. Madonna and Child, c.1485 (oil on wood) by Giovanni Bellini, currently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

The famous artwork was transported to a secure location on Friday in an operation that took over seven hours and involved a decoy truck for safety. Sewn by English women, probably in Kent, the Bayeux ...