A German anatomist analyzed a photograph of Bach’s skeleton, to calculate the composer’s impressive reach at the keyboard.

Decades ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological success has prompted a dire problem—and a race to save many of them from genetic ...

Rebuilt in 2016 by 160 volunteers, the Avontuur, a revived cargo vessel, sails between Germany and the Caribbean, iniviting ...

The port of Ushuaia in Argentina welcomed a record number of cruise ships in late December, with the arrival of 19 vessels ...

For 5,000 years scholars, generals, and mystics have been fascinated by the Egyptian pyramids. That obsession persists in the modern age. Today the Pyramids of Giza are surrounded by desert. But 4,600 ...

Once at risk of being wiped out, humpback whales charted a remarkable comeback thanks to their songs. In 1979, National ...

In order to understand the massive changes afoot in the warming polar regions, oceanographer Allison Fong is hunting for the ...

Long before Julia Child and Emeril Lagasse, Antonin Carême gained international fame, by cooking for kings and writing ...

The province of Rize, in northeastern Türkiye, has long been known as the country’s tea capital. Plantations cling to steep ...

National Geographic-Lindblad Expeditions is slightly increasing its berth count and bringing operational costs down in Alaska ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole. Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led ...

In the rugged terrain where Mexico and the United States meet, a border wall is just the latest obstacle fragmenting habitats ...