Yes, you heard right: Cell phone radiation may protect against and even reverse Alzheimer's-like symptoms, according to a new study involving genetically tweaked mice.
Archaeologists have found the only known burial shroud from a Jesus-era tomb in Jerusalem. Not only is it nothing like the Shroud of Turin, but it also held the world's earliest known leper.
National Geographic News's most popular coverage of 2009 scientific finds is swarming with megamouth sharks, giant snakes, a transparent-headed fish, and rare species rescued from obscurity—then eaten.