For the first time, scientists have observed the brain throughout the pregnancy timeline, from pre-conception to postpartum.

In a recent study, participants who walked five times a week were 28 percent less likely to have a recurrence of their lower ...

This story appears in the May 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine ... But the trick is to confirm this assumption with real data. How does sleeping help the brain? The answer may depend ...

This story appears in the June 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine ... space-weather centers are adding staff and hoping for the best. “We’re trying to understand how space weather ...

This story appears in the December 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine ... The living crown (this one atop the General Sherman, at center) was once a distant mystery.

This story appears in the March 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine ... "Cahuachi was a ceremonial center," says Giuseppe Orefici, an Italian archaeologist who has led the excavation ...

Bingham's discovery was published in the April 1913 issue of National Geographic magazine ... demonstrate that Machu Picchu was built in the center of a sacred landscape. Machu Picchu is nearly ...

This story appears in the August 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine ... 150 dives in dozens of blue holes. They gathered data that promise to deepen our understanding of everything ...

Today, says Nigel Taylor, a geneticist at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis ... Foundation and members of the National Geographic Society for their generous support of this ...

This story appears in the August 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Geo WILD to follow their development at three breeding centers. I crouch down low in the grass to get a closer ...

It begins in the moist highlands of Angola’s rainy center and flows ... with support from the National Geographic Society, has embarked on a grand effort of exploration, data gathering, and ...

Green of the Center for Human Sexuality Studies at ... This story appears in the January 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. To a degree unimaginable a decade ago, the intensely personal ...