Nothing whets the appetite for a road trip quite like America's Wild West. Plan your trip along the Colorado River Scenic Byways and you'll be treated to a natural spectacle like no other. Just take U-9 Zion Park Scenic Byway, ride into Zion National...
In the predawn hours from high in the Wasatch Mountains, Salt Lake City looks like dancing fireflies. You're climbing to an elevation of 11,000 feet, just to make a morning meeting. Forecast is for increasing clouds, one to three today, four to five...
Every year on the beautiful Lindau island of Lake Constance, some of the best of the worlds young scientists meet Nobel Prize winners. As it turned out, this meeting of physicists was a true meeting of minds. And so native created five new films expl...
Sir David Attenborough has been making natural history films for the BBC for over 50 years. In this time, he, perhaps more than anyone alive, has seen evidence for evolution in the stunning diversity of nature. To find and film animals. This is the b...
Nature's latest report from the world of paleontology challenges the assumptions made by everyone until now about when animals first walked the earth. This is footprint of early tetrapods. We have here, for example, digits, impressions, and something...
In 1498, the Portuguese became the first Europeans to reach India by sea. They came in search of spices and Christian souls, spices they found in abundance, but the Christians they would have to generate for themselves. The capital city of old Goa qu...
Outsiders call it peyote. The Huichol, an indigenous tribe in western Mexico, call it hikuri, and they teach their children to use it. While most societies outlaw this consciousness-altering drug, Mexico permits the tribe to use it as the central exp...
Althoughit has become a tourist town, the islands in a place where things are donejust a little differently. Itsknown for its literature from Ernest Hemmingway to Tom Corporate Key West hasalways been a favorite siting for authors. Thestory of the Ke...
When massive stars explode, they can produce gamma-ray bursts. The burst, reported in two papers in Nature, is the earliest descriptive event seen so far in our universe. When I received the text message about the gamma-ray burst, it came ultimately...
Nature reports results from GRACE, a satellite machine designed to use gravity measurement to monitor the world's water resources. GRACE is the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment and it's a two-satellite machine. These two satellites are followi...
A stolen ancient Egyptian sarcophagus is returning home. The sarcophagus nearly three thousand years old was seized by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE during the routine shipment inspection at the Miami international airport in 2008....
This all black feathered king penguin could be one in a zillion. The video was recorded on a sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia by National Geographic Traveler magazine contributing editor Andrew Evans on his bus to Antarctic expedition. While man...
Little Emilia may not know it, but she played a role in the fateful circumstances that saved her family and relatives from serious injury and possibly much worse. It was her baptism that brought the family together in this picturesque region of Chile...
Botswana lies in the arid（不毛的，贫瘠的） basins of southern Africa, much of it within the Kalahari（喀拉哈里沙漠） Desert. But in the north, there is an immense oasis（绿洲） called the Okavango Delta. Created by the floodwate...
In the Dogon village of Komokan in Mali, preparations are underway for a rare event, the Village Dama. Damas can be held only after a good harvest, and in this environment, that doesnt happen very often. The Dama is a mask festival that honors deceas...
