When temperatures drop, so do the invasive green reptiles. Here’s everything you need to know about cold-stunned iguanas.

Steam rising from sizzling platters, candles flickering across curious faces and strangers swapping stories over glasses of ...

New archaeological clues are shedding light on the fate of isolated Norse colonies in Greenland that disappeared during the Middle Ages.

Compared to tennis or pickleball, the sport’s smaller courts and longer rallies increase aerobic engagement and decision-making without sharply raising physical strain.

A newly upgraded resort in Atlantic Canada offers an unusual combination of winter activities — and the chance to ski quiet slopes down to the sea.

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

Seaweed bathing in Ireland, a trek through Africa’s first designated wilderness quiet park—we asked National Geographic staff ...

Rooted in early Christian tradition, Candlemas marks the presentation of Jesus and purification of the Virgin Mary at Herod's Temple in Jerusalem.

Scientists have long observed that cancer patients have a lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease. New research reveals a possible ...

While much of the country’s attention will be on the East Coast to mark the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of ...

About 700 million years ago, Earth was entombed in a veneer of ice hundreds of feet thick—a frozen state scientists refer to ...

From oats to beans to chicory root, each type of fiber acts differently inside the body. New research is revealing how fiber ...