Anthony Brandt continues his series on the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804. Christmastime two hundred years ago the Corps of Discovery was wintering in present-day North Dakota, in constant contact with Indians.
In an interview, filmmaker Wes Anderson discusses his boyhood fascination with Jacques Cousteau, the inspiration behind his new movie, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou.
Yes, the holidays bring millions of chopped-down trees and megawatts of flashing lights. But they don't have to be an environmentalist's worst nightmare.
For his action-adventure movie about plane-crash survivors stranded in Mongolia's Gobi, director John Moore needed a boundless, untouched desert. He found it in Namibia.
For the next few weeks sky-watchers can spot Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn in the same nighttime sky. The planets won't be visible together to the naked eye again until 2016.
Since ancient times people have marked their bodies as a form of cultural spiritualism. A new book of photographs looks at tattoos, scarification, and other traditional and modern body markings in more than 30 countries. Photo gallery included.
Two wildlife champions, Michel Masozera, Rwanda country director for the Wildlife Conservation Society, and Ali Kaka, executive director of Kenya's East African Wild Life Society, are this year's winners of the National Geographic Society/Buffett Award for Leadership in African Conservation.
When Rwanda plummeted into genocide ten years ago, the event transformed a genial hotelier into an unlikely hero. A new film, Hotel Rwanda, recounts his story.
Most health experts agree that Asian bird flu poses a grave danger and will likely spread unless urgent steps are taken. But some virologists caution that alarmist warnings could harm preparedness plans.
Scientists say they have developed a non-invasive, brain-computer interface that enables a person to move a cursor across a computer screen just by thinking about it.
