Corals may look still, but they follow a daily sleep cycle. New research shows why corals rest at night while their microbes ...

Around the world, coral reefs are under threat from rising ocean temperatures, deteriorating water conditions, and diseases like Stony Coral Tissue Loss (SCTLD). Since the 1970s, more than half of the ...

Fiji's HIV cases are surging, with 1,583 new infections in 2024 as crystal meth use and unsafe injection practices fuel ...

Not all of our time-lapses went well, here is a few of them: 00:00 Hyacinth 00:57 Celery 01:56 Bells Of Ireland 03:13 Celosia ...

Each tile is designed to mimic the complex shape of Platygyra, or “brain coral” — one of the major local coral species — ...

Child development experts and organizations give advice to parents looking for the best toys for their kids based on ...

Published January 7 in the journal Nature, one paper tackled the age-old problem of nature’s construction with a bit of a twist: it suggests that living networks, like our brain, may use some of the ...

For example, the World War II tanker E.M. Clark sank on a relatively flat, sandy seabed in 1942 when it was torpedoed by a German submarine. To this day, the intact metal wreck looms over the North ...

We were 10,000 feet above the Pacific, in a tiny Cessna that seemed like it should have been flying much lower than that, when the clouds cleared and Lady Elliot Island appeared below us like an ...

Seaweed bathing in Ireland, a trek through Africa’s first designated wilderness quiet park—we asked National Geographic staff ...