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 ...

This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. In her office on ... Earth-like planet orbiting a sunlike star. Her current focus is the Transiting Exoplanet Survey ...

These conversations have led to better head counts of transgender Americans, with a doubling, in just a decade, of adults officially tallied as transgender in national surveys; an increase in the ...

This story appears in the July 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. The race for the ... and one silver at the 2016 Olympics—has the latest scientific and technological resources and ...

This story appears in the December 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s apparition ... Her life is picked up from hearsay.” Some of the latest Mary scholarship focuses on her ...

This story appears in the April 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Rats are our shadow ... near Antarctica, is the current record holder: In May 2018 it was declared rat free after ...

An aquatic adventure in the western Pacific island nation of Palau — home to over 300 islands — highlights the reward of ...

From Japan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist’s Out of Eden Walk marks 12 years, with North America on the horizon.

From the culinary specialties of Tasmania to the plethora of wildlife in the Seychelles, islands far and wide are home to a ...

This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. From the English ... date to the time of the Lost Colony. Read the latest news here. Photograph by Mark Thiessen WITH ...