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Five centuries ago, a single misprinted image in a German Bible quietly rewired how Europeans pictured the world and their ...

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With its northern lights and midnight sun, this Nordic beauty has long gone under the radar—but no more. Its boundary-pushing public art, inventive tasting menus, and floating saunas make it a ...

In 2010, tusk hunters scouring a riverbank near Siberia’s Arctic coast discovered the mummy of a juvenile mammoth. The animal, nicknamed “Yuka” after the nearby village of Yukagir, had been frozen for ...

National Geographic photographer Brian Skerry has been diving in the Gulf of Maine for more than 40 years. After learning these waters were a harbinger of climate change, he set out to document the ...

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Haiti's qualifying campaign for the 2026 World Cup has been played exclusively away from home. EZEQUIEL BECERRA/AFP via Getty Images The lights went out, but the fans didn't budge. When they came back ...