Editor's Picks: Destinations

Explore the Via Ferrata in England's Lake District

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North America's Top Natural Wonders

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North America is made up of natural wonders including unusual geological formations, towering mountains and icy glaciers.

Nature is Fly | Shark Camp in Montauk

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Luke, Aria, and Kailiana visit Dr. Craig O’Connell’s shark camp in Montauk, New York for a special Shark Week episode. On board, Kailiana meets her first shark in person and helps the team track down blue sharks.

Airship Renaissance is Pushing Balloon Technology to the Limits

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Airships seem like technology from a bygone era. But when a group of British scientists took to the skies above Florida in a Skyship 600, it could have been as champions of a new age in lighter-than-air transport. Drifting among the clouds, it showed there was a place for airships in the 21st century.

Building Atlantropa: One Man’s Plan To Drain the Mediterranean Sea

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Atlantropa may be the most bizarre and ambitious environmental project you have never heard of.

Mountains, Monasteries, and Yaks: Trekking the Majestic Kingdom of Bhutan

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The Kingdom of Bhutan is notoriously difficult to get to. But the country’s isolation means its culture has not been diluted over time, and it provides a fascinating step back into a stunning landscape.

Curiosity Daily: Super X-Ray, Seeing Future Weather, Vitamin D-ementia

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Discover a new x-ray giving us incredible sight into ourselves, the future of weather prediction, and a surprising potential link between dementia and vitamin D.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Food for Climate Change, New Water Planet, Stormchasers

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We delve into which foods that research shows will become more popular as we adjust to climate change, the discovery of a new planet covered in water, and the effects of Arctic storms on ice levels.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Why You’re Tired After Work, Air Travel Question Answers, and a Quadrillion Tons of Diamonds

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In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:

America’s Most Iconic Trains are Back in Action — Here’s What You Need to Know

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Two of America’s oldest and most fabled trains are pulling out of the station again this summer after a long pandemic hiatus. The iconic and picture-postcard locomotives are the perfect place to start a summer adventure, and offer a refreshing alternative to road trips. Here’s everything you need to know about them.Please review and follow all state and local guidelines while traveling.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: You’d Probably Survive A Plane Crash, Why People Still Fax, and How Spleens Can Multiply

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Learn how people survive plane crashes; why and how your spleen can multiply into accessory spleens; and why people still use fax machines.

Women May Have Been Powerful Rulers of the Ancient World

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A discovery in Spain has experts wondering whether women were once powerful rulers in ancient Europe.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: New Algorithm Can Turn Thoughts Into Speech, Airplane Seat Belts, and the 40 Percent Rule

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Learn about a breakthrough technology that can translate thought into speech; a Navy SEAL’s method for mental toughness; and why airplane seatbelts are the way that they are.

The Impossible Row Reaches Antarctica

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Colin O'Brady and his crew have achieved the first human powered row across the Drake Passage.

Risking it All for a Highline

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Luke Tipple and his family head to Bend, Oregon, to meet highlining master Ari DeLashmutt (Pushing the Line). Luke and Aria test their skills on the highline, and even Kailiana gets in on the slacklining action.

Tornado Science: Predicting The Whirlwind

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Tornadoes, wild rotating vortexes of high-speed winds, are among the most feared of nature’s destructive storm forces. Researchers are working tirelessly to predict these storms with better early-warning systems.

Snow Storms in Texas? Let’s Talk About It

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Freezing temperatures in the south and warming temperatures in the north? Something isn’t adding up.

Discovering Europe’s Last Wild Rivers

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Rivers in the Balkans are largely free-flowing, unlike other bodies of water on the continent. They are home to endemic species of fish, provide habitats for birds, and a playground for watersport daredevils.