Brian Handwerk

2 weeks ago | nationalgeographic.fr | Brian Handwerk |Kenneth Garrett

Les Égyptiens de l'Antiquité construisaient des monuments publics massifs pour leurs pharaons. Mais ils consacraient également du temps et des fortunes à la création de mausolées souterrains cachés. La collection la plus célèbre de tombes aussi élaborées, la Vallée des Rois, se trouve sur la rive ouest du Nil, près de Louxor.

2 weeks ago | nationalgeographic.fr | Brian Handwerk |Joel Sartore

Depuis des années maintenant, les chiens de sauvetage sont mobilisés pour aider à trouver des survivants parmi les décombres des sites de catastrophes naturelles ou d’accidents. Les chiens sont en quête d’une respiration humaine, explique Sinead Imbaro, policière et formatrice militaire pour l’unité cynophile de police aux États-Unis, à News Nation. S’ils trouvent quelqu’un, ils aboient pour alerter les secours.

1 month ago | nationalgeographic.com | Brian Handwerk

The ancient Egyptians built massive public monuments to their pharaohs. But they also spent time and treasure creating hidden underground mausoleums. The most famed collection of such elaborate tombs—the Valley of the Kings—lies on the Nile's west bank near Luxor. During Egypt's New Kingdom (1539-1075 B.C.), the valley became a royal burial ground for pharaohs such as Tutankhamun, Seti I, and Ramses II, as well as queens, high priests, and other elites of the 18th, 19th, and 20th dynasties.

Mar 7, 2025 | smithsonianmag.com | Brian Handwerk

In 1915, physicist Albert Einstein put forth his theory of general relativity, which explained gravity as a product of the curvature of space and time. The theory paved the way for the concept of the black hole—a place in space where matter has been tightly compressed and become dense enough that it produces extreme gravity with an inward pull so powerful that not even light can escape.

Nov 26, 2024 | nationalgeographic.com | Brian Handwerk

While we can simply throw on a sweater or turn up the heat, wild animals must have strategies to make it through the winter months. Take spiders. Many ground-dwelling North American species, such as wolf spiders, get through the winter by burrowing in the soil, under leaf litter, or inside logs.