In the Himalaya hair-raising healing rituals are taking place as the sick seek the powers of local oracles. In sometimes-violent rituals, oracles suck what are thought to be disease-causing substances from their patients. (A related story airs Monday, May 24, on our U.S. cable television series Taboo.)
Everyone agrees that Earth's oil supply is limited—but just how close are we to running out? Some experts predict an irreversible shortage within a few years. But at least one analyst argues that new technologies and underestimated reserves mean that the sun is far from setting on the oil age.
Retired after selling his sensor business, Norwegian-born entrepreneur Fred Kavli has devoted his personal fortune to trying to resolve some of the fundamental questions he pondered as a child: How did the universe begin? How is it that we think?
Archaeologists have discovered an underground maze packed with mummies from nearly 3,000 years ago. The site, south of Cairo, was most likely an multifamily cemetery, Egypt's top archaeologist said.
Scientists have discovered a new dinosaur that roamed the long-gone coast of Montana about 150 million years ago. It is the first new dinosaur to be identified in the region in more than a hundred years and exhibits several unusual features.
This article is third in a series. Author Anthony Brandt is following the trail of the Lewis and Clark expedition across the North American West. Along the way, he's reporting on 200th-anniversary events at pivotal locations—and on what happened all those years ago.
National Geographic photographer Jodi Cobb set out to expose the secret world of 21st century slavery—27 million people kept against their will as prostitutes, laborers, and factory workers. Her photos cast light on their condition and raised awareness that slavery persists almost everywhere.
On June 8, 2004, at National Geographic's Washington, D.C.,
headquarters, Queen Noor of Jordan is scheduled to again present the
World Legacy Awards (WLA) for sustainable tourism—a joint
program of National Geographic Traveler magazine and
Conservation International.
Sea gypsies who dive the waters of Myanmar and Thailand have adapted eyesight to see a lot more clearly underwater than other humans. Is this learned or genetic? Scientists are trying to find out.
Dinosaur fossil hunters have found a "very good" Tyrannosaurus rex on a Montana ranch. Not content to announce their finds after the expedition, they're inviting the world to follow the dig as it happens, online.
As the blockbuster Brad Pitt film Troy storms the cinemas, archaeologists and historians are shedding light on the ancient city and epic that inspired the movie.
Adventurer Nick Middleton traveled to malarial, crocodile-infested swamps of Indonesia to see how tribes or tree house dwellers and island-builders survive the great muck. (A related story airs Sunday, May 16, on our U.S. cable television program Going to Extremes: Swamp.
Bloodsucking bedbugs are sneaking back between the sheets some 50 years after being all but wiped out in the developed world, a new study says. The insects are sweeping cities across North America, Western Europe and Australia.
Brood X has arrived. Are you ready? Billions of black, shrimp-size bugs with transparent wings and beady red eyes are beginning to carpet trees, buildings, poles, and just about anything else vertical in the U.S. from the eastern seaboard west through Indiana and south to Tennessee.
The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is a "living" museum where one can see about 40 species of Southwestern birds at all times. The walk-in aviary, about the size of a football field, enables photographers to get up close to birds such as the Inca dove, hooded oriole, pyrrhuloxia, and Gambel's quail.
