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They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

The weekly newspaper that ran from 1950 to 1970 declared itself the only paper ‘100% interested in San Diego’s Peninsula area ...

A season on the Northern Forest Canoe Trail—stretching from the Adirondacks to northern Maine—reveals fresh possibilities for ...

In stark black-and-white and stunning color, this year's winning photographs capture global events on a human scale ...

Opinion: When the “shot heard ‘round the world” rang out, it launched a legacy carried on in today’s National Guard, Gen.

Fifty dollars for STEM, five cents for citizenship—that’s how America apportions its education dollars. Our beleaguered ...

This story appears in the April 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. The wreck sleeps ... rex at a natural history museum: impossibly huge, pinned and braced at great expense—an extinct ...

Photograph by Underwood Archives, Getty Images The task force ... Cole visits Doolittle's grave in Arlington National Cemetery. Now 101 years old, Lt. Colonel Cole served as Doolittle's co-pilot.

This story appears in the April 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. The purpose of cities ... Shanghai I toured an exhibit on the city’s history with Pan Haixiao, a transportation ...

In Sugar: A Bittersweet History Elizabeth Abbott quotes Quaker ... could meet the criteria for metabolic syndrome set by the National Institutes of Health. Recently the American Heart Association ...

We all love our parents, but they have some truly baffling hoarding tendencies. If you’ve ever helped clean out their house or simply opened a drawer at their place, you’ve likely encountered the ...