Overheard at National Geographic

They're smart, they're sneaky, and they aren't moving out any time soon. Meet your new neighbor, the coyote, and find ou... Read more

What if women had been among the first to head to the moon? A NASA physician thought that wasn't such a far fetched idea... Read more

Murder, succession, and a 18-foot scroll of papyrus that reads like an ancient Egyptian episode of Law and Order. We get... Read more

Mice on the sub-Antarctic Marion Island are out for blood, and they're feasting, zombie-style, on living, immature albat... Read more

There's a humpback whale song sensation that's sweeping the South Pacific. We'll learn about the burgeoning study of "wh... Read more

Right now, one million animal and plant species are threatened with extinction. Conservation scientists are doing whatev... Read more

Coronaviruses aren't new. For more than 20 years, German virologist Rolf Hilgenfeld has been looking for ways to slow or... Read more

A fireball from outer space crashed into one of Earth's biggest lakes. Scientists didn't know how to find it. So, they c... Read more

What is a honeybee chop shop, and why do they exist? Turns out the answer has everything to do with the food on our tabl... Read more

Social Media is not just for modern folk. In ancient Pompeii, people also shared what they thought, who they met with, w... Read more

The desolate Alaskan tundra - a landscape that has literally been frozen solid for thousands of years - is suddenly cavi... Read more

Crawl into the Maya underworld, where science meets spirits, shamans, and snakes. A long-forgotten cave could shed light... Read more

A mechanical engineer teams up with an unlikely band of students who use middle school math and science to create artifi... Read more

Most parents see lying as a cause for worry or reprimand. But some experts suggest lying at a young age could be a welco... Read more

Half a mile below the surface of the earth, in a cave too hot to explore without an ice-packed suit, NASA scientist and ... Read more

What do tigers, sloths, elephants and bears have in common? They're all part of the incredibly lucrative captive wildlif... Read more

How did an ancient Roman harbor end up in ruins? Scientists realized the culprit was a long-forgotten natural disaster t... Read more

One of National Geographic's writers was hard to pin down for a while. That's because she was in Sudan, scuba diving und... Read more

Bringers of plague, schleppers of pizza slices, garbage gobblers. Rats have adapted over the millennia to survive and th... Read more

Since George Washington took the first presidential oath of office in 1789, inaugurations have been held during times of... Read more