There is a 41-year-old woman, an administrative assistant from California known in the medical literature only as "AJ," who ...

How the spirit of ancient Stonehenge was captured with a 21st-century drone. Photographer Reuben Wu took innovative risks to show one of the world's most-photographed sites in a new light.

The flakes were fallout from the Manhattan Project’s Trinity test, the world’s first atomic bomb detonation. It took place at 5:29 a.m. local time atop a hundred-foot steel tower 40 miles away ...

On December 7, 1941, Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor. Maps, both historic and newly created by National Geographic, yield new insights into the full scope of Japan's battle plans for the day ...

Howard Tucker has been practicing medicine since 1947. Ahead of his 103rd birthday, the neurologist shares his thoughts on ...

Just as it turned 100 in 2016, America’s National Park Service (NPS) began to officially recognize the contributions that ...

From Boston’s North End to San Francisco’s North Beach, these communities are still serving the country's most authentic, ...

This article was created in partnership with the National Geographic Society. For Tara Pelletier, it came down to deodorant. Her company, Meow Meow Tweet , had developed a formula for deodorant ...

It can take more than a year to make a single razor-sharp katana. In Japan, business is booming for the few remaining smiths ...

The Most Feared Dogs May Also Be the Most Misunderstood. Many countries ban pit bulls as a dangerous breed but “there’s no science that bears that idea out,” says this author.

Once reserved for mountain towns, iron-rung climbing courses called via ferratas are showing up in places like Columbus, Ohio. Here’s where else to try one.

Shell shock and combat fatigue. From aerial combat to poison gas, WWI introduced terrifying new combat technology on a previously unimaginable scale, and soldiers left the front shattered.