Why Mongolia should be your next wellness escape Barren yet beautiful, the moonscapes of Mongolia’s Gobi Desert are an alluring world of steppes, boreal forest, sand and rock. Here, visitors can ...

Built over 2,000 years ago, the iconic desert city continues to mesmerize tourists and archaeologists alike. Ad Deir, or the Monastery, is one of Petra's many facades carved out of sandstone in ...

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From LED light therapy to snail mucin, skincare trends are more than just beauty fads—they have fascinating scientific principles behind them. Test your knowledge of how these trends really work.

With next-generation telescopes, tiny space probes, and more, scientists aim to search for life beyond our solar system—and make contact. Propelled to a fifth the speed of light by a laser beam ...

One morning in early fall Andrei Mongush and his parents began preparations for supper, selecting a black-faced, fat-tailed sheep from their flock and rolling it onto its back on a tarp outside ...

For more on lying check out our podcast, “Overheard at National Geographic.” Listen here. This story originally published in the June 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the fall of ...

The miracle material has made modern life possible. But more than 40 percent of it is used just once, and it’s choking our waterways. Just after dawn in Kalyan, on the outskirts of Mumbai, India ...

A cluster of four Northern California reserves shelters the coastal redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens). The main lure is strolling through cathedral-like groves along a 37-mile stretch of the Pacific ...

This story appears in the June 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Every now and then the dawn of civilization is reenacted on a remote hilltop in southern Turkey. The reenactors are ...

Captive wild animal encounters are hugely popular, thanks partly to social media. But our investigation shows many creatures lead dismal lives. For $10, tourists can pose with this tiger at Phuket ...

Our floodlit society has made sleep deprivation a lifestyle. But we know more than ever about how we rest—and how it keeps us healthy. Joe Diemand, 76, has spent the past 20 years as a truck ...