(Read about the pope's Christmas gift to a NatGeo photographer.) Pope Francis I’s successor, the 267th head of the Holy See, will be voted on by the College of Cardinals following the period of ...

A version of this story appears in the May 2025 issue of National Geographic magazine.

For the first time in history, each evening’s television news bulletin was headlined by graphic black-and-white footage illustrating the brutality of what was being perpetrated in our supposed ...

Sources in Washington, including within the Department of Justice and on Capitol Hill, have told Inside Climate News that ...

The remains of two children, perhaps a boy and a girl, rest beside each other at a mass burial site of Pampa la Cruz on the arid coast of northern Peru. They are among the 269 children who were ...

The auction house also sold a gold Omega Speedmaster that belonged to Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell for $142,664. Though ...

This story appears in the May 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Miller brothers ... The researchers and the impetus came from the Natural History Museum of Utah and the U.S. Bureau ...

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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 ...

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THE Aryan myth is not an invention of the Nazis. These neo-Teutons merely exploited a widely-held German belief which dates ...

In a world where leadership is constantly being redefined, these five remarkable women have risen to the occasion, ...