Listen here. This story originally published in the June 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the fall of 1989 Princeton University welcomed into its freshman class a young man named ...

The award-winning singer, actress, and entrepreneur has been admirably forthcoming about her mental health journey. And with ...

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 August 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Nearly every night of our lives, we undergo a startling metamorphosis. Our brain profoundly alters its behavior and ...

This story appears in the September 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. “If you break loose here, you can’t stop. You’re going into the abyss,” barks Rich Rudow. Normally he is ...

This story appears in the February 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. “She’s very close,” Germán Garrote whispers, pointing to a handheld receiver picking up Helena’s signal.

This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. From the English ship Hopewell anchored off the coast of what is now North Carolina, Governor John White watched with ...

This story appears in the January 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. AT SUNSET THE WILDEBEEST SEEMS DOOMED: Sick or injured, it’s wandering miles from its herd on the Serengeti Plain of ...

This story appears in the October 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Moon jellies, which are found in shallow bays around the world, look like small, not entirely friendly ghosts.

For more detail on these diverse ingredients in traditional Chinese apothecaries go here. Items not to scale. Photographed at Emperor’s College of Traditional Oriental Medicine, Santa Monica ...

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 ...

National Geographic is giving some much-deserved recognition to the changemakers who help build a brighter future for the world with their new National Geographic 33 initiative. Named for the 33 ...