Hoping to avoid the problems of dimpled ballots and hanging chads, election officials around the U.S. will rely on electronic voting machines for tomorrow's presidential vote. But are the machines secure?
Every October or November the reproductive swarming of an ocean worm known as the palolo is cause for a Samoan celebration. Fried in oil, baked into bread, or swallowed raw, worm sperm and eggs are a seasonal delicacy here.
With The Grudge scaring up big Halloween box office, Hollywood is readying more remakes of Japanese horror movies. "J-horror" owes its creepiness to a distinctly Japanese yen for psychological scares.
This week the National Geographic All Roads Film Festival showcases indigenous filmmakers. Among the films, an Iranian documentary set in a public restroom, where women remove their veils, smoke, and discuss everything from drugs to sex to religion.
It may be called the City of Peace, but no other city has been more bitterly fought over than Jerusalem. Jerusalem expert Eric Cline, a historian and archaeologist, discusses the city's turbulent history.
Scientists have found skeletons of a human species that grew no larger than a three-year-old modern child. The species lived with pygmy elephants and giant lizards on a remote island in Indonesia.
A politically charged program to poison prairie dogs has begun in South Dakota. Mixed in with the controversy is an endangered ferret and the rights of cattle ranchers.
Half of all U.S. Secret Service agents are dedicated to protecting President Washington—and all the other Presidents on U.S. currency—from counterfeiters.
A 121-million-year-old fossil of an unhatched bird has been found in China. The fossil suggests early bird species, like dinosaurs, were well developed at birth, scientists say.
Photographers Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher discuss their experiences from over 30 years in Africa capturing and recording faces and customs. With photo galleries.
Since before vice presidential candidate John Edwards brought attention to the South's vanished textile mills, ex-mill workers and historians have been working to save the mills' legacy.
In some corners, popular belief holds that science and religion are incompatible, but scientists may be just as likely to believe in God as other people, according to surveys.
After a huge earthquake struck San Francisco in 1989, many Californians thought they'd survived the "Big One." But experts say smaller quakes hold greater cause for worry.
Fifty years ago Hurricane Hazel unleashed death and devastation from South Carolina to Canada—and spurred new hurricane research and monitoring methods.
Before he became the Marxist revolutionary icon known as "El Che," Ernesto Guevara de la Serna was an Argentine medical student tired of school and itching to see the world.
