The Arecibo Observatory’s suspended equipment platform fell hundreds of feet and crashed through the giant radio dish.

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Photojournalist Ami Vitale followed Przewalski’s horses—once declared extinct in the wild—on a 2,000-mile journey back to ...

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The Monuments Men and Women Foundation is on the hunt to recover stolen masterpieces—and they say this could be our best ...

When weird fungal epidemics crop up in far-flung places, scientists work together to unravel how the microscopic murderers ...

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

Calakmul remained relatively undisturbed until gum harvesters in Mexico led an American botanist to them in 1931. Here’s what ...

Researchers are investigating whether the drug could be used in mainstream medicine—with and without its hallucinatory ...

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