New fossils link a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a species that mixed climbing skills with its own style of bipedal walking. The evidence shows that multiple early ...

On February 26, 1852, the HMS Birkenhead struck a cluster of rocks off the coast of South Africa. With only a few lifeboats for the 638 people aboard, ...

This video explores Gorkha, the historic birthplace of unified Nepal. We visit cultural landmarks and learn why this ancient ...

Mohan Karki's family and others with Nepali ancestry were persecuted and driven out of Bhutan in the 1990s. Karki himself was ...

Smithsonian magazine's picks for the best books about travel of 2025 include Adventures in the Louvre, On the Hippie Trail ...

Former Nepali ministers, officials, and a Chinese company face corruption charges over financial irregularities during the construction of an international airport near Kathmandu. The Commission ...

Nepal’s anti-graft watchdog said the state-owned Chinese firm and Nepali officials colluded to inflate the costs of an ...

Asmita Ale discusses her incredible family history, being the first person of Nepalese descent to play for England.

Ultimately, the India–Nepal border dispute is not only about the origin of a river. It is about how neighboring countries ...

A common misconception about research is that it takes place in climate-controlled labs with microscopes, beakers, and Bunsen ...

Few figures in history have done more to change our understanding of the natural world. We celebrate Jane Goodall’s remarkable life with rare images from the National Geographic archives.