On the 50th anniversary of the upheaval, we look at images that one brave photographer hid from the government.

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...

After years of planning, the mountaineer Jim Morrison successfully descended the narrow Hornbein Couloir—notching an ...

Some sixty years after her grandmother discovered “Nutcracker Man,” Louise Leakey unearths his long-lost hand—reviving a ...

The winners of the 51st annual Nikon Small World photo contest offer a glimpse at some of the tiniest—and most ...

Travel enabled him to cast his gaze beyond Puritan Boston and imagine fresh possibilities. What advice might the peripatetic ...

Women have been barred from most public spaces. Afghan citizens are being deported by nearby countries. And marginalized ...

The new pesticide, based on the venom of a particular spider, kills common agricultural pests but leaves honeybees unharmed. (See “Honeybees in East Africa Resist Deadly Pathogens.”) The bee-friendly ...

Highlighting the best wildlife photography across land and sea, these the winners photos from this year's Wildlife ...

It smells of manure and is stained by tobacco juice. It's where tough men dance to keep loose and a few men say their last ...