The physics of hockey
If dangling from a rope inside a melting glacier is your idea of a vacation, then come with us to Alaska's Wrangell-St. Elias
The company that makes the Oscar statues has a pretty high-tech process to make the famous man.
"This is the first show that treats art produced by AI as a distinct genre."
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The Ocean Cleanup team launched its first unmanned cleanup system from San Francisco Bay. Several experts question the efficiency and practicality of this plan.
The bone bonanza shows mammals enjoying a remarkable growth spurt just after the dinosaur-killing impact.
A ‘dream team’ of scientists scaled Mount Lico and found a wealth of new species
A strange thing happened after Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 crew returned from the moon with lunar rocks: Many of the mementos given to every U.S. state vanished. Now, after years of sleuthing, a former NASA investigator is closing in on his goal of locating the whereabouts of all 50.
For the cover story in the April 2013 issue of National Geographic, I explore an idea that sounds like pure science fiction: bringing extinct species back to life. What was once the purely the domain of Crichton and Spielberg is becoming a new field of research. Thanks to spectacular advances in cloning, reproductive technology, and […]
At the height of the Cold War, America’s most secretive counterespionage effort set out to crack unbreakable ciphers
When a dam comes down this fall, a team of scientists will be there to track the environmental changes.
Scientists are uncovering new clues to the origins of domestication in an unlikely creature: foxes. After 60 years of selective breeding in Siberia, there are a few rare foxes that are pretty unafraid of people, although they’re not the perfect pets, either. So, of course, we went to meet them.
Alternatives to the now infamous compound keep popping up. But researchers aren’t convinced they’re any better for us.
Wild burros have long flourished in Death Valley National Park, and officials are now seeking to remove them because of their destructive impact on scarce water and vegetation resources. But new research suggests that they may actually have created a novel ecosystem that benefits native species.
Geologists classify the last 4,200 years as being a distinct age in the story of our planet.
Using a neutron scanner at Los Alamos, paleontologists are generating high-resolution imagery of early mammal fossils
All rocks younger than 4,200 years are now part of the Meghalayan Stage.
The mysterious helmeted hornbill fades from Southeast Asia’s forests as poachers and traffickers target it for the illegal wildlife trade.
Mexico City is in the midst of a dire water crisis. Uncovering ancient lava may be the answer
Biologists at Washington University in St. Louis have published a first-of-its-kind look at the physical characteristics of lizards that seem to make the difference between life and death in a hurricane, as reported July 25 in the journal Nature.
Christie's will sell the work from Paris-based art collective Obvious, which created ‘Portrait of Edmond Belamy’ with the machine-learning algorithm GAN
Bonobos are much more likely than common chimpanzees to share their food, a study suggests. But researchers who study sharing say human kids are more helpful and cooperative than either species.
These ‘snailfish’ look too fragile to exist several miles below the waves.
It took thousands of years for humans to breed a pea-sized fruit into a beautiful beefsteak tomato. Now, with gene editing, scientists can change everything.
Ten years ago, the world's largest scientific instrument was turned on and the start of a research dynasty began.
Ocean Cleanup has raised $40 million to deploy a massive device to capture plastic pollution. But many scientists don’t think the plan holds water.
Our guts and our brains are in constant communication with the goal of managing a whole lot more than food digestion. Their conversations can affect stress, behaviors — even memory.
The CMU process takes advantage of a common printing defect.
Was Darwin inspired by the tropical wildlife of his travels to discover natural selection? Actually, pigeons, worms and barnacles were far more prominent in his thinking.
