A newly studied Maya wetland settlement in northwestern Belize reveals preserved wooden architecture and evidence of climate adaptation.

It is one of the most famous questions in science, and it was asked, as legend has it, over lunch. Enrico Fermi, the ...

Will humanity extend into the far future? It's likely many of us think it should. The problem is that each of us, individually and collectively, act otherwise—we are destroying the environment and ...

It relates to things we have in our collection, and it's also a really great combination of scientific disciplines,” said Cranbrook Institute of Science Susan Flint Cooper Director Lucy Hale. “You ...

The great cities of the Maya lowlands dominated the Early Classical period, as we take a look at the latest instalment of our history series.

Season 1 of Paradise opens like a sleek political thriller but slowly mutates into something far more unsettling and ambitious. The story begins with Secret Service agent Xavier ...

The ceiling was fifteen centimetres above the waterline. To move forward, the explorers had to submerge in the dark and push ...

Explore mysterious “out-of-place” artifacts inside the Cairo Museum, including precision-cut granite boxes, tube drill holes, ...

As the son of archaeologists, National Geographic Explorer David Stuart spent his childhood wandering ancient Maya ruins—and helped shape what we know about the civilization today.

By Victorian times, confectioners began transforming the cooling mint and chocolate contrast into sweets. In 1940, peppermint ...

A well-known filmmaker, Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Ketan Mehta have come together for a project that aims to recreate one of ...

For first-time visitors to the heart of Central America, Guatemala can feel like multiple trips in one. Smoke plumes from volcanoes along the Pacific. Lush forests engulf the north. And in the ...