This story appears in the July 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the digital age, when it’s easy to manipulate a photo, it’s harder than ever to ensure that the images we publish ...

This story appears in the December 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a gentle slope above a trail junction in Sequoia National Park, about 7,000 feet above sea level in the southern ...

This story appears in the September 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. Your National Geographic Society membership helped fund recent excavations at Holmul and La Corona, Guatemala.

This story appears in the January 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the winter of 1769, the British explorer Captain James Cook, early into his first voyage across the Pacific ...

This story appears in the August 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. We sink into Stargate ... bacterial culturing, and the search for molecular fossils—must wait until she gets back ...

8 min read This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The maps here show the world as it is now, with only one difference: All the ice on land has melted and ...

This story appears in the December 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s a warm winter ... Very few stay long before they push on, perhaps in search of a mate, or fall victim to ...

For more on lying check out our podcast, “Overheard at National Geographic.” Listen here. This story originally published in the June 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the fall of ...

National Geographic magazine wanted Jane to write an article about her work—but it ... begins a sentence with “After two months’ search in vain,” Jane cuts him off: “It wasn’t true ...

This story appears in the May 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Mütter Museum ... Big hits emerge after many attempts. “Most articles published in the sciences are never cited ...