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Nikon’s Small World in Motion competition offers a unique window into life under a microscope. A tardigrade, colloquially known as water bears, move around a volvox algae colony. Tardigrades are water ...

At 102 years old, Howard Tucker is the world’s oldest practicing doctor—and he’s eagerly looking for new work since the hospital where he taught medical residents closed in 2022. “Right now, I’m out ...

Dominica fully lives up to its self-appointed nickname as the "Caribbean’s Nature Island." In a region that brims with pristine beaches requiring nothing more but to show up and relax, Dominica ...

Winter needn’t be your off-season. There are magnificent hikes to be enjoyed on many of the continent’s coastlines and ...

We explore the trends — from nautical nostalgia to silent sailings — making waves in the coming year and beyond.

Pablo “Popi” García Borboroglu and Bertie Gregory have been named the 2025 Rolex National Geographic Explorers of the Year. Borboroglu has been an Explorer since receiving the National ...

These birds have evolved to withstand the equatorial sun and shelter in volcanic rocks along a subtropical coastline. After 50 years, biologist Dee Boersma continues to learn new things about the ...

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to ...

An eccentric and artist, Arnold Henry Savage Landor won his way into the late 19th-century courts of east Asia by painting ...

Only in Switzerland can you speed down a slope racing against a train. Skiing Jungfrau’s piste 36 brings me alongside the distinctive red carriages of a Jungfrau Railway train, its locomotive whirring ...

Will Smith kicked off his new National Geographic travel show with a journey to the southern-most point of the globe. Before he could reach the South Pole, however, he had to climb a wall of ice. The ...