Often mistaken for obesity, lipedema primarily affects women. Researchers are working to understand its biology—and develop ...

In the 19th and 20th centuries, this fishing village transformed into a city of more than three million inhabitants. But capitalist speculation, drug trafficking, and bloody political struggles ...

National Geographic stories take you on a journey that's always enlightening, often surprising and unfailingly fascinating. This month–the tigers who changed their stripes.

With a name that means ‘sunlight’, the town of Nikko in Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, is intimately bound to the ...

One of the world’s great open-air museums, Luxor’s West Bank is also a living, breathing neighbourhood best explored by ...

“I took a hundred pictures of it,” remembers Nogales-Ascarrunz. “I was so fascinated.” ...

In Peru’s Amazon, Indigenous women are opening their communities to visitors and sharing traditions shaped by centuries of ...

Her twins Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene were made prisoners. But they still had a big role to play in Roman history.

Dinosaur poop—possibly from a juvenile T. rex or Nanotyrannus—containing feathers, bone fragments, and fish scales provides a ...

Planets without stars to orbit raise important questions about how planets evolve and what habitability might look like ...

Two decades after Concorde’s last flight a new class of supersonic commercial jets are on the horizon. Boom Supersonic's experimental XB-1 jet (shown in a Schlieren photograph) has flown at supersonic ...

Scholars have been divided for years over whether a ring inscribed with the word “Pilato” belonged to Pontius Pilate. A new ...