The National Museum of Health and Medicine is located on the Fort Detrick-Forest Glen Annex in Silver Spring, making it accessible for residents throughout Maryland and the DC metro area. Admission is ...

The bill would cut Medicaid by over $1 trillion and strip health insurance from nearly 12 million over the next decade.

Strata: Stories from Deep Time’ explores the origins of the air we breathe and untangles some of our planet’s oldest stories.

Did you know that some of the oldest human-made structures on Earth align precisely with the rising sun on the summer ...

The study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with ...

The nose tends to be one of the most noteworthy features on a person's face. But what is the origin of the human nose, and ...

This is why Lucy has been the face of human evolution for the last 50 years Other researchers are more confident in holding up H. luzonensis as a new species.

Maybe, with a little luck, he would make another discovery that would change the map of human evolution. A version of this story appears in the February 2025 issue of National Geographic magazine.

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life we find there are many groups of mammals that have evolved testicles of all different sizes. In almost all these separate cases, ...

New research reveals why early human attempts to leave Africa repeatedly failed—until one group succeeded spectacularly ...

Researchers determined that footprints in White Sands National Park in New Mexico are from the oldest migrants to North ...