This story appears in the January 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. Noon in the United ... spacious rooms, a DVD player in a polished bookcase, covered decks overlooking a cousin ...

This story appears in the June 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. A finger across the ... and flat-screen televisions hooked to DVD players. But it is impenetrable enough, rife with ...

A version of this story appears in the May 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. At National Geographic, we’ve helped you explore the world for 130 years. With the launch of the May print ...

This story appears in the August 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. Not every feat of taxidermy qualifies as art. But as the art of taxidermy has endured and evolved, it has given form to ...

This story appears in the July 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. When the ranger studied ... The owner of a computer-repair store was renting out DVDs and preparing to open the town ...

This story appears in the February 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. The year is 2121. Stilted houses in Phnom Penh sit above urban farms fed by the Mekong River. Athens is smog free ...

This story appears in the February 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Most of us will never get to see nature's greatest marvels in person. We won't get a glimpse of a colossal squid's ...

This story originally appeared in the August 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine as "The Hidden World of the Great War." In honor of Veterans Day and the 100th anniversary of the end of ...

This story appears in the May 2005 issue of National Geographic magazine. On January 29, 1931, the world’s premier physicist, Albert Einstein, and its foremost astronomer, Edwin Hubble ...

This story appears in the May 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Zodiac raft motors through the freezing drizzle, skirting large ice cakes, taking on wave after invigorating wave of ...

This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Space suits—designed to provide oxygen and consistent atmospheric pressure—have evolved from pressure suits for ...

This story appears in the May 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. “As Gus ages into adulthood, the list of his challenges that worry me grows longer,” Judith Newman writes of her ...