This story appears in the March 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. IN AMSTERDAM I met a man who revealed to me the hidden currents of our lives—the massive flows of raw materials and prod ...
SISAL, YUCATÁN, MEXICO—In a damp, darkened shoreside laboratory near the Yucatán hamlet of Sisal, Carlos Rosas Vázquez lifts one of the scores of small conch shells littering a black plastic t ...
NEW YORK CITY—Bright green and viscous, Morningside Pond looks like a vat of unappealing pea soup. Styrofoam cups and plastic bags cling to the pond’s edge, bound in place by bubbles of green fo ...
First described by Einstein over a century ago, frame dragging theory is a rather complicated concept which basically suggests space is elastic. What it loosely means is when space is effected, so ...
This story appears in the March 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. WE FEEL BAD when we throw out things that shouldn’t have become trash (like uneaten, past-its-prime produce) or expend r ...
Photographer Kristian Laine was freediving recently off the southernmost island of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef when a bright pink manta ray glided by. He thought for sure that his camera was ...
VALENTINE’S DAY IS the day of love. On February 14, more than any other day of the year, romantic couples shower their better half with gifts and tokens of appreciation. Much about Valentine’ ...
SWIM THROUGH THE mangrove forest waters of the world, from the coasts of Florida to Micronesia, and you may encounter a jellyfish that stings despite having no tentacles. In fact, you needn’t eve ...
It’s dawn, and a crowd is gathering on a farm outside of Eunice, Louisiana.> The Courir de Mardi Gras, a lesser known country cousin of the Fat Tuesday celebrations, is a frenzied foot race ro ...
A NEW FOSSIL find has set paleontologists abuzz: Ancient nests confirm that bees were alive and well in Patagonia 100 million years ago, marking the oldest fossil evidence for modern bees. The ...
In the black spruce forests along the Tanana River in central Alaska, scientists Miriam Jones and Merritt Turetsky watched for years as trees tipped, leaned, and toppled into boggy ground. Over ti ...
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL — Rodrigo Müller was working a block of rock and dirt at the base of Agudo Hill, an hour from Porto Alegre, when he first saw an unusual set of osteoderms, bony deposits that ...
JARED VORIS IS no stranger to death. By early 2018, the University of Calgary master’s student had spent more than a year poring over bones in museum collections, studying how tyrannosaurs mature ...
On Sunday evening, a rocket lit up Florida’s nighttime sky as it ferried a spacecraft toward a first-of-its-kind adventure to the sun. Even though our home star smoulders every day in our skie ...
Beautiful and fragile, coral reefs in tropical oceans worldwide are threatened by climate change, storms, and bleaching. Now travelers can help restore them by supporting coral replanting programs ...
