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National Geographic's enterprising photographers have helped readers explore and learn about our beautiful world through their images for more than a century. Here is their best work from the past ...

National Geographic photographer Keith Ladzinski focused on the positive when it came to forest fires: the solutions people are working on.

In the medical field, being fast, efficient, and correct can be the difference between life and death. This game-changing tool is helping cancer researchers and doctors save lives. It’s the ...

In print, online, and in a broadcast series hosted by actor Will Smith, scientists and explorers journey to extreme places and explain curious phenomena. How one image captures 21 hours of a ...

For centuries, the Seine River has been Paris’s dumping ground. A billion-dollar cleanup is trying to make it swimmable again. The history of Paris is inextricably linked to the river that flows ...

Is America’s first wilderness area still wild at heart? Is America’s first wilderness area still wild at heart? How did ancient cultures discover iron? It fell from the sky. How did ancient ...

Braving the same unpredictable Antarctic sea ice that doomed the ship 109 years ago, the 2022 team miraculously found the final missing piece of the legendary expedition. Scientists are racing to ...

From cardiovascular disease and obesity to a weakened immune system, the side effects of stress can be life-altering. But there may be a way to prevent those outcomes. This questionnaire—first ...

It premiered October 26, 2019 at 10/9c on National Geographic. See the trailer How ... What is your greatest strength? The issue’s contributors answer. What is your greatest strength?

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across ...