Category: Art

(Main) An Earth-like terrestrial world (inset), black lichen grows on a desert rock (Image credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva)/ Bob O’Kennan via iNaturalist) The key to determining which planets could host extraterrestrial life could be growing in the harshest deserts of Earth in the form of lichen. The secret to this discovery: the “world’s best...

Some important updates have started to trickle out about two of Netflix’s most talked-about TV series — one of them a spy thriller, the other a courtroom drama — and it seems that while one is speeding toward its next chapter, the other has hit an unexpected delay. Let’s start with Black Doves , the...

Years after wildfires burn forests and watersheds, the contaminants left behind continue to poison rivers and streams across the Western U.S. — much longer than scientists estimated. A new study, published on June 23 in Nature Communications Earth & Environment, analyzed water quality in more than 500 watersheds across the Western U.S., and is the first...

There are a lot of factors that push people toward conservation, from an interest in preserving species for their contributions to human health to an inclination to protect them for their control of pollutants, pests, or overpopulated prey. But one of the most powerful forces that causes people to support conservation is anthropomorphism — the...

Avengers: Doomsday might have been delayed, but it’s still coming next year. In fact, it’s Marvel’s only MCU film set to hit theaters in 2026 at the moment. Not counting Thunderbolts* (The New Avengers), Doomsday will be the first big Avengers adventure of the Multiverse Saga. That 7-year wait since Endgame will make Avengers 5...

The Trifid and Lagoon nebulas light up the dark reaches of space. (Image credit: Greg Meyer) Astrophotographer Greg Meyer has captured a colorful view of the famous Trifid and Lagoon nebulas illuminated from within by radiation cast out by generations of energetic young stars. Both star-forming regions orbit within the Milky Way over 4,000 light-years...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Sitting at the smart, horseshoe bar of El Toloño, veteran head chef Josu Armiño is letting me into a secret. “We’ve got something that I think other places don’t have, and that’s the simplicity of the way we use ingredients,” he says, sporting pristine chef’s whites...

The National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum have been next-door neighbors in Washington, DC for nearly 90 years—but until now, they’ve never shared so much as a cup of coffee across the fence. That all changes this summer, as the two institutions collaborate to create a cross-pollinated art and natural science...

Monika Luabeya Jun 10, 2025 NASA astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz works with a grapple fixture during a June 2002 spacewalk outside of the International Space Station. He was partnered with CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales)  astronaut Philippe Perrin for the spacewalk – one of three that occurred during the STS-111 mission. Chang-Diaz was part of NASA’s...