It’s not brutish human nature that prompts nasty posts and tweets, the author says. But how we evolved does play a role.

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The actress is using her massive platform to anoint new role models in her fight to change how we think about diabetes.

Photographer Michael Nichols captured Jane Goodall as she studied chimpanzee behavior in the wild in 1990. “We should be kind to animals because it makes better humans of us all,” Goodall once told ...

The magnetized needle of a conventional compass wants to align with Earth’s magnetic field—helpful, unless you’re near the poles, where the field tugs straight downward, rendering magnetic compasses ...

Casper native Dean Conger spent 30 years at National Geographic traveling the globe taking photos of presidents, astronauts ...

Scientists can now do research on live human organs without petri dishes or animal testing.

The National Geographic Society is teaming up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to migrate its footage into a centralized ...

Our first in-house map was produced during World War I. By the Second World War, the White House was asking for them by name. National Geographic Society maps supply a backdrop for a meeting between ...

Few figures in history have done more to change our understanding of the natural world. We celebrate Jane Goodall’s remarkable life with rare images from the National Geographic archives. Ethologist, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photographer Michael Nichols captured Jane Goodall as she studied chimpanzee behavior in the wild in 1990. “We should be kind to ...