Especially when some of the world's best bird-watching can be found within America's borders, in places as pretty as northern ...

The route from the land of the dead to San Andrés Mixquic, a little town just outside Mexico City, is lined with marigolds.

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The NBA's first international export of 2025-26 is a promising one. Here's what viewers should expect from the new Peacock broadcast.

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There are endless variations of the Catrina sold in many forms during the holiday—and throughout the year in Mexico. Photograph by Tino Soriano, National Geographic Stands of cempasúchil flowers ...

Kids today consume far more sugar than recommended, but the effects don’t stop in childhood. New research reveals surprising ways early sugar exposure shapes long-term health. It's not just candy.

When you think about fall in New England, you envision a blaze of red, yellow, and orange foliage streaking the landscape. During the autumn months, the one thing that might beat sitting on the porch ...

New science suggests there's plenty that actually gets better with age—if you let it. While aging is often framed negatively, researchers have uncovered surprising benefits. Above, members of a senior ...

Nearly 60 years ago, the original Star Trek series ignited a dream in the public’s imagination: that one day, people would travel the galaxy in ships propelled by faster-than-light “warp drives.” The ...

The Red Sea was thought to host ecosystems resilient to warming waters, but a 2023 heatwave proves otherwise. A juvenile Red Sea anemonefish, also called a clownfish, looks out from between the ...

From the oracles of ancient Rome to Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, humans have long turned to the dream world to decode the mysteries of the mind. Lu Chin's mid-16th century painting entitled "Zhuangzi ...