“All the Fermi Paradox tells you is that civilizations are rare. It doesn’t tell you why they’re rare,” says Ian Crawford, a ...

A new analysis aims to answer a longstanding question about why the plague reached Europe when it did—and why it spread so ...

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

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

In an unprecedented year of pandemic and natural disasters, cash-strapped state parks now face funding cutbacks.

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

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

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

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

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

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