Sea spaghetti, red algae, and sea buckthorn may not be the ingredients that come to mind when you think of Scottish cuisine.

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Tempeh, a protein-rich block of fermented soybeans, is a beloved ingredient in Indonesian cooking. On the island of Lombok ...

Both men and women report higher sexual satisfaction with aging, but women may especially benefit. One study found that women ...

“It really changes the feelings people have,” Maktoufi stresses. She integrated play and art therapy in her work with children facing terminal illnesses and through grief facilitation in hospice care.

Inside a covert operation to bombard North Korea with pantyhose and nature films. In the summer winds, South Korean activists loft huge makeshift balloons filled with subversive materials and hygiene ...

ON A SUMMER DAY in central London, a 44-year-old woman named Lucy Peel descended a slippery stairway on the bank of the River Thames to crouch on her hands and knees over a particularly intriguing ...

Corpse, or coffin roads, were used throughout the Scottish Highlands and Islands to carry caskets on foot from the remotest places once populated by thousands, to cemeteries with burial rites. The ...

The fish farm is only half a mile from the Island of Hawaii's coast, but the water is deep, up to 240 feet, and the current is strong. Breaking the blue horizon, two of Blue Ocean Mariculture’s ...

Lava tubes and caves exist on Earth, and they have provided refuge to voyaging humans from intense weather for almost 10,000 years. The cave discovered on the moon is likely to be very similar to ...

National Geographic stories take you on a journey that's always enlightening, often surprising and unfailingly fascinating. This month–why nature’s least appreciated creatures are practically ...