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
This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). In November 2021, the Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) made an ambitious proposal. Its member lines, which together form 95% of the global cruise fleet, announced a collective pledge to pursue net-zero emissions by 2050. Perhaps recognising the scale of theContinue Reading
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a trio of young stars in the process of becoming their best selves in the constellation Scorpius. Posted to the agency’s site on January 16 as part ofContinue Reading
This LOFAR DR2 image of J1007+3540 superimposed over an optical image by Pan-STARRS shows a compact, bright inner jet, indicating the reawakening of what had been a ‘sleeping’ supermassive black hole at the heart of the gigantic radio galaxy. Credit: LOFAR / Pan-STARRS / Kumari et al. Get the PopularContinue Reading
Scrapes on the ground and rubs on trees radiate a glow under ultraviolet light. Chamberlain Smith Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Animals see the world around them in ways that we humans can only imagine. Arctic reindeer’s eyes changeContinue Reading
Depiction of the fourth horseman of the apocalypse, Death, riding a mythical creature, presumably a winged lion. The depiction was created in Erfurt in the mid-14th century. Credit: Klassik-Stiftung Weimar Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The Black Death (YersiniaContinue Reading
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