Despite its reputation, science isn't immune from making mistakes or chasing sensationalism, but one hoax in particular was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...

Scientists have discovered evidence of stone megastructures on the Karst Plateau on the border of Slovenia and Italy that ...

Some sixty years after her grandmother discovered “Nutcracker Man,” Louise Leakey unearths his long-lost hand—reviving a ...

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 ...

An archaeologist is piecing together what the V-shaped stone structures—some stretching 500 feet long—were used for.

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 ...

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 ...