Japan is combining education, culture and technology to encourage reciprocal relationships between coastal communities and ...

Reyhaneh Maktoufi loves a good story. She uses it to make sense of the world. Her own storytelling style leans into humor. “As most people who are artists will tell you, I often scribbled in a ...

Aerial view of the Amazonian jungle on a flight from La Paz to Rurrenabaque, 2014. OpenAI has announced the winners of a its 'OpenAI to Z Challenge' that hopes to help archaeologists cut through the ...

Hatton declined to say what buyers could expect to bid on at Geek Week 2026. “Space exploration was my first auction and my first passion,” she told National Geographic. “I love the history of science ...

We know next to nothing about 99.999 percent of the seafloor. How one researcher plans to democratize deep-sea exploration. Katy Croff Bell, who has been an ocean researcher for 25 years, is working ...

In the early 1950s, Marie Tharp began connecting dots to map the ocean floor, using sonar technology. Sonar detects underwater objects by timing the echo of a soundwave and was originally developed to ...

National Geographic Explorers participating in the National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Ocean Expeditions are conducting scientific research across Earth’s most crucial ecosystem. Through ...

From groundbreaking research to the beauty of marine sanctuaries teeming with life, these images shine a spotlight on the ocean and the Explorers who champion it. South American sea lions (Otaria ...