This Halloween marks the hundred-year anniversary of magician Harry Houdini's death. Houdini was famous for his astounding ...

These tiny plastic beads go down the drain, eventually making their way to rivers, lakes, and the ocean at a rate of eight ...

A red panda totters along the branch of an evergreen tree, placing one paw in front of the other like a gymnast on a balance beam. But then ... whoops! The panda loses its footing. A fall from this ...

Jack's passion about raising awareness of the deadliest, creepiest, and most endangered animals takes him to Australia's ...

Riders experience 6.5 seconds of weightlessness on this ride, thanks to a 90-degree vertical drop. This is one of the world’s ...

How will this winter storm turn out? Fill in the blanks to create your own silly story.

This lively Mexican celebration helps families honor their ancestors. Skeletons are scary, right? Not if you're celebrating Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead. Day of the Dead combines the ancient ...

The water cycle is the constant movement and storage of water throughout the Earth. The Earth's water supply never changes. It just travels. The Earth always has 332.5 million cubic miles of water. In ...

Make a 'ghost glove' by mixing and splitting carbonic acid! This experiment from the Nat Geo Kids book Try This! is guaranteed to get you excited about chemical reactions. This is a multistep reaction ...

Find out how legendary leader King Tut might have died. A young boy stands in a temple filled with burning incense as he waits for a priest to place a glittering crown on his head. The ritual is part ...

GRAVITY: If you weigh 100 pounds (45 kilograms) on Earth, you’d weigh 107 pounds (49 kilograms) here. You've probably used the word “awesome” a hundred times to describe anything from the graphics in ...