A new study is part of a growing body of evidence that vaccination against shingles—and potentially other infections—can be protective against developing dementia. While there is currently no ...

Pablo “Popi” García Borboroglu and Bertie Gregory have been named the 2025 Rolex National Geographic Explorers of the Year. Borboroglu has been an Explorer since receiving the National ...

Titanic: The Digital Resurrection, a new National Geographic documentary streaming on Disney+, tells the story of the effort. It is the largest underwater 3D scan ever made, amounting to 16 ...

In Ocala National Forest, Florida, a cicada slowly unfurls its wings and expands its body after emerging from its exoskeleton. Photograph By Nicholas Conzone All periodical cicadas in a given year ...

Sea moss is rich in nutrients—but it can also contain dangerous levels of heavy metals and iodine. Here’s what to know before you take it. A mix of kelp, Irish moss, and sea lettuce harvested ...

This story appears in the April 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. The wreck sleeps in darkness, a puzzlement of corroded steel strewn across a thousand acres of the North Atlantic seabed.

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Today, Deary takes readers on a journey to the Dale Bumpers White River National Wildlife Refuge ... NWR provides an optimal habitat for native mammals to thrive, as well. Of course, regulations ...

After the Trump administration gutted the budget, Cathy Gorn, the executive director of National History Day, posted on social media to ask folks to donate so the kids can make it to the national ...

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Satellite imagery of visible light for a nighttime scene near Java, Indonesia collected by the National Oceanic and ... dark plastic stars you can buy your kids,” according to a 1980 U.S ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Homeland Security officers visited two Los Angeles public elementary schools this week to do a welfare check on migrant children, not for immigration enforcement, the ...