Unlucky days aren’t just a spooky movie trope. Around the world, calendars come with their own little landmines: dates people dodge, rituals they follow just in case, and numbers that make elevators skip a button. Sure, you’ve almost certainly heard of Friday the 13th. But that’s only one flavor ofContinue Reading
This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Looking at the winter landscape in Rovaniemi, the capital of Finnish Lapland, you might think little goes on here during the year’s coldest months. The ground, blanketed in a thick layer of powdery snow, is frozen solid, as are rivers and lakes. TheContinue Reading
Welcome to Dead World, a series digging up the most fascinating discoveries in archaeology and paleontology. To kick things off, our first episode unpacks one of the biggest dinosaur stories of 2025: the confirmation of Nanotyrannus. For 40 years, paleontologists fiercely debated whether this small tyrannosaur was simply a teenage T. rex or a distinct dinosaur species. Now, new research offers the strongest evidence yet that Nanotyrannus was real. WatchContinue Reading
This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Switzerland’s sporty mountain resorts have traditionally offered far more than just downhill skiing. In these long-settled local towns, getting from A to B in winter has often required ingenuity. In Arosa, a horse-drawn sleigh takes riders from railway station to hotel,Continue Reading
Booking affordable airfare can be a turbulent process. Prices rise and fall day by day, or in some cases, hour by hour. In the past, frequent fliers swore by loose strategies to find deals—book on a Tuesday! No, on a Wednesday! Never on a weekend! But experts caution that manyContinue Reading
This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Cutting through Peru’s Sacred Valley like a lifeline, the Urubamba River is fed by ancient glaciers and flanked by Inca ruins, terraced farmland and eucalyptus-covered hillsides. It’s along this historic waterway that I find myself donning a wetsuit and helmet onContinue Reading
On Muna, a tropical island off southeastern Sulawesi, Indonesia, lies a cave decorated with prehistoric paintings. Locals call it Liang Metanduno. They visit the archaic art gallery to marvel at depictions of flying human figures, boats filled with passengers, and mounted warriors drawn with red, brown, and sometimes black pigment.Continue Reading
This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). When Eric Peythieu was growing up in Chantemerle in the French Alps, he and his friends had a simple way of deciding whether you were a proper skier. “We came to the top of this slope,” the 58-year-old ski instructor remembers,Continue Reading
Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through science decades later. Gregor Mendel, Austrian botanist and founder of genetics, poses for a photograph circa 1860. Between 1856-1863, Mendel bred almost 30,000 pea plants in his monastery garden which demonstrated that hereditary characteristicsContinue Reading
This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). In the Tokyo pleasure district of Shibuya, amid the nightclubs and the love hotels, an electric sign flickers a pink slogan: ‘Music from the BYG’. I walk through the door and find myself inside a classic rock ’n’ roll drinking hole.Continue Reading
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