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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 January 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. I would never have ... Linda co-founded an online personal genomics company, to which Harriett and I each sent our ...

This story appears in the July 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. The race for the ages can be run only in our imagination: Usain Bolt vs. Jesse Owens. Bolt is in his 21st-century lane ...

This story appears in the January 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. To a degree unimaginable a decade ago, the intensely personal subject of gender identity has entered the public square.

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Photographed at the U.S. National Library of Medicine This story appears in the January 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... about a traditional remedy online, order the herbs on ...