A new study is part of a growing body of evidence that vaccination against shingles—and potentially other infections—can be protective against developing dementia. While there is currently no ...

Pablo “Popi” García Borboroglu and Bertie Gregory have been named the 2025 Rolex National Geographic Explorers of the Year. Borboroglu has been an Explorer since receiving the National ...

A version of this story appears in the May 2025 issue of National Geographic magazine.

In Ocala National Forest, Florida, a cicada slowly unfurls its wings and expands its body after emerging from its exoskeleton. Photograph By Nicholas Conzone All periodical cicadas in a given year ...

U.S. passport holders can travel to more than 100 destinations without a tourist visa, but some popular vacation spots require them. We explain the different types of visas and how to apply ...

This story appears in the April 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. The wreck sleeps in darkness, a puzzlement of corroded steel strewn across a thousand acres of the North Atlantic seabed.

This story appears in the April 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. The wreck sleeps in darkness, a puzzlement of corroded steel strewn across a thousand acres of the North Atlantic seabed.

National Geographic is asking photographers to submit photos or videos that "celebrate the beauty of the planet" for Earth Day. Its editors, along with filmmaker Bertie Gregory, will pick their ...

Watch nutrients flow through an underground circulatory system that connects fungi and plants. A new study shows how these networks form. 0:10 Researchers are trying to understand the underground ...

A version of this story appears in the May 2025 issue of National Geographic magazine. The nonprofit National Geographic Society, committed to illuminating and protecting the wonder of our world ...

There were just over 700 survivors. The 90-minute National Geographic documentary allows filmmaker Anthony Geffen “to reconstruct the ship’s final moments—challenging long-held assumptions ...

home of the world’s brightest bioluminescence according to Guinness World Records. Published in the April 2025 issue of National Geographic Traveller (UK).