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National Geographic photographer Joshua Cogan returns to eastern Nevada to document the art, culture, and creative traditions shaped by the region’s high-desert landscape. At Spanish Ranch in ...

National Geographic joined an expedition to understand the mysterious creatures of the ice-locked southern continent. Waddling through the snows of a continent reserved for research, a gentoo penguin ...

Africa has long captured the imagination of travelers with vivid scenes like dense rainforests with monkeys gracefully traversing through treetops and thrilling safaris through sunbaked savannas.

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Michigan is bringing in a decorated head coach to take over its women’s soccer program. The university announced Tuesday the hiring of Dave Dilanni as head coach after a 12-year stint at Iowa in the ...

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Research shows that delaying important tasks is often driven by how the brain processes stress and threat—not by poor time management or lack of discipline. Behaviors like procrastination and ...

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to Australia. Shinatria Adhityatama examines cave art in one of the caves of ...