This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. When you hear the words “laundry detergent,” what comes to mind? Probably not mushrooms. But a Danish firm called ...

This story appears in the January 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. When Goldie Nejat began developing robots in 2005, she spent much of her time knocking on doors in hopes of ...

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Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. In a world that ... in the dark, oxygen-free environment of a commercial landfill or in the cool waters of the ...

This story appears in the August 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. We sink into Stargate ... Nearly oxygen free, blue holes preserve bones intact. We instinctively associate life ...

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 March 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. When the plague swept through England in the 1660s, it killed some 100,000 Londoners. To warn of disease, “plague ...

This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. When I met the cyborg ... a vitamin-rich protein. In a recent article in the Scientist, John Hawks, a ...

This story appears in the January 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. If birds left tracks in the sky, what would they look like? For years Barcelona-based photographer Xavi Bou has been ...

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 September 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Before, it was inconceivable: risk-free biomedical testing on living human organs. But new “organs-on-chips ...

Cory Richards has photographed nine stories for the magazine. His previous article, “Myanmar’s Toughest Climb,” ran in September 2015. Society Grant Your National Geographic Society ...