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Watch full episodes of Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time online. Get sneak peeks and free episodes all on Nat Geo TV.
Walking more is associated with reduced risk for dementia, diabetes, heart disease, and more—but a new study says you can get fewer than 10,000 steps a day and still see all those benefits.
Watch full episodes of Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller online. Get sneak peeks and free episodes all on Nat Geo TV.
Watch full episodes of To Catch a Smuggler online. Get sneak peeks and free episodes all on Nat Geo TV.
Why It's Worth It: Manhattan on Steroids. The City That Doesn't Sleep in the East. Asia's World City. No moniker could do justice to the altitude, pace and sheer scale of daily life in Hong Kong ...
Who built the ‘lost city’ of Petra—and why did they leave? Built over 2,000 years ago, the iconic desert city continues to mesmerize tourists and archaeologists alike.
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This U.S. national park has the world’s longest cave system—and an unusual history Mammoth Cave National Park might be a top tourist destination in 2021, but it wouldn’t be the first time.
Pharaoh during Egypt's golden age, King Ramses II built more monuments and sired more children than any other Egyptian king.
Bizarre new planet is largest known rocky world, 40 times as massive as Earth The bulky object—possibly the core of a failed gas giant—challenges what astronomers think about how planets form.
U.S. generates more plastic trash than any other nation, report finds The plastic pollution crisis has been widely blamed on a handful of Asian countries, but new research shows just how much the ...
Under Genghis Khan, the Mongol army became a technologically advanced force and and created the second-largest kingdom in history.