- National Geographic News
- 11/3/5 00:27
A space shuttle makes its final flight, the sun explodes with activity, and more in the week's best space pictures....
A space shuttle makes its final flight, the sun explodes with activity, and more in the week's best space pictures....
Enough mud to fill 56,000 swimming pools is expected to spew from the Indonesian volcano before it simmers down, a new study says....
FRIDAY 4. MARCH 2011
A tornado with blazing innards whirled above a burning plastic-processing plant outside Budapest, Hungary, on Tuesday....
Revealed this week, a new reconstruction portrays "Ötzi," the Iceman mummy, oddly half naked and older looking than usual....
THURSDAY 3. MARCH 2011
Mind-controlling fungi that create "zombie" ants in Brazil's rain forests are more diverse than thought, a new study says....
WEDNESDAY 2. MARCH 2011
Talk about "eew" de toilette—male monkeys that rub their fur with urine may be making themselves irresistible to females, a new study says....
If this solar cycle produces a flare like the 1859 Carrington Event, we may face trillions in damages and year-long blackouts, experts say....
During this week's Bolivian landslide, whole neighborhoods and even a cemetery split, with land falling multiple stories downhill....
A camera trap has caught one of the world's most elusive cats on film for the first time, conservationsts say....
An unusual number of dead young dolphins are washing up on the Gulf Coast. Puzzled scientists warn it's too soon to blame the BP oil spill....
A tough hunk of rock that may be under Wyoming could explain why the Rockies seem to be out of place, a new mountain-formation theory says....
Javan rhinoceroses—possibly the rarest mammals on Earth—are among the animals recently snapped by camera traps in Indonesia's rain forests....
Critically endangered and rarely seen rhinos with their calves were filmed by WWF in Indonesia with motion-activated cameras. Video....
TUESDAY 1. MARCH 2011
Global warming may cause surprising human health problems due to microbes, bacteria, and toxic algae blooms, new research suggests....
In high cliffside caves, explorers find 1,500-year-old de-fleshed skeletons—clues to an unknown Himalayan rite....
Found in dangerously high Himalayan cliff caves, newfound bones—many of which had been defleshed—point to an unknown ancient ritual....
From the marvellous spatuletail to a flightless parrot, see 12 award-winning pictures of birds most in danger of extinction....
Pools teeming with life found among remote Antarctic sea ice contain "the greenest water I've seen in the world," an expert says....
FRIDAY 25. FEBRUARY 2011
There are still plenty of fish in the sea—they're just the little ones, according to new models of fish decline....
More Gandalf than Aragorn, the new face of "Ötzi," the famous Iceman mummy, is more wizened and weathered than previous reconstuctions....
THURSDAY 24. FEBRUARY 2011
A newfound Alaskan cremation site may offer clues to how the first Americans lived—and where they came from....
An island draped in sea ice, flares spurting from the sun, and dark landslides on the moon are featured among the week's best space pictures....
The province of New Brunswick on Canada’s East Coast is a frontier for shale gas development, and for a new approach to industry oversight....