and helping to preserve and promote regional and national cultural heritage on a global scale. Hay-on-Wye is Wales has empty buildings filled with secondhand books. Photograph by Gregor Lengler ...

A new study is part of a growing body of evidence that vaccination against shingles—and potentially other infections—can be protective against developing dementia. While there is currently no ...

Pablo “Popi” García Borboroglu and Bertie Gregory have been named the 2025 Rolex National Geographic Explorers of the Year. Borboroglu has been an Explorer since receiving the National ...

Titanic: The Digital Resurrection, a new National Geographic documentary streaming ... to the hard drive footprint of six million e-books). To create it, two remote-operated robots romantically ...

In Ocala National Forest, Florida, a cicada slowly unfurls its wings and expands its body after emerging from its exoskeleton. Photograph By Nicholas Conzone All periodical cicadas in a given year ...

U.S. passport holders can travel to more than 100 destinations without a tourist visa, but some popular vacation spots require them. We explain the different types of visas and how to apply ...

The Seattle Public Library loves to promote books and reading ... now is the perfect time. April is National Poetry Month, and what better way to celebrate than reading and discussing poems ...

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Watch nutrients flow through an underground circulatory system that connects fungi and plants. A new study shows how these networks form. 0:10 Researchers are trying to understand the underground ...

A common neurotoxin produced by algae blooms is making California sea lions more aggressive. Here’s why it has the power to change behavior—and the danger it poses. Rescuers capture a sick sea ...

There were just over 700 survivors. The 90-minute National Geographic documentary allows filmmaker Anthony Geffen “to reconstruct the ship’s final moments—challenging long-held assumptions ...

The National Endowment for the Humanities, established in 1965, funds a wide range of arts, culture, and history programming across the country, from academic papers and books to local museums and ...