From bold design and clever use of architecture to incredible locations and a dedication to serving the finest local food, the Hotel Awards 2025 celebrates the best new and renovated places to stay ...

Your brain isn’t built for endless stress. This overlooked emotion can hit the reset button. The northern lights, seen here over Tasiilaq Fjord, Greenland, in 2017, can trigger awe—a state scientists ...

This fall, every full moon will be a supermoon. Here’s how often it happens—and why. A super “blue” moon rises above Monsaraz Castle in Portugal’s Dark Sky Alqueva reserve. October, November, and ...

Is this the real reason the Roman Empire collapsed? Throughout antiquity, kingdoms and nations rose and fell but Rome stood strong—until its steep decline. The fall of this ancient superpower is so ...

Anecdotal claims that eating cheese before bed causes nightmares were once so prevalent that in 2005 the British Cheese Board sponsored a study on the matter. For the week-long experiment, 200 ...

Beside the ochre-colored gorges and turquoise coastlines of Western Australia lies a surprising hue: fuchsia pink. The state’s pink salt lakes have been a startling part of the landscape for thousands ...

Every Romani person wears the trace of Istanbul. Our ancestors’ sojourn in the city—then Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine empire—is evident every time we converse in our language. The Medieval ...

Research shows that moving to music with others reduces symptoms of depression more than walking, yoga, or even standard treatments. A meta-analysis of 218 trials involving over 14,000 people revealed ...

Next time you're on social media consider this: one study evaluating influencer posts on Instagram found that 86 percent of nutrition content didn’t cite any scientific sources—and other research ...

A centuries-old technique is finding new life in beauty routines thanks to social media influencers. Experts weigh in on what compression can—and can’t—do. A snug compression wrap promises to sculpt ...

National Geographic helped the famous conservationist get her start—and followed her chimpanzee research and advocacy for wildlife in a career that forever changed how we understand animal behavior.

Photographer Michael Nichols captured Jane Goodall as she studied chimpanzee behavior in the wild in 1990. “We should be kind to animals because it makes better humans of us all,” Goodall once told ...