This story appears in the September 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. Early on a clear ... A white plume is spewing from a cooling stack. Half an hour later, the sound of the turbine ...

This story appears in the August 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. The dynamite comes ... Georgia is a small player at the table, left to stack small chips. Indeed, the most significant ...

This story appears in the December 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. "I'm hungry," says ... We are near the summit—the top is just over a stack of boulders, maybe 20 feet above our ...

This story appears in the February 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. The cab glides through ... Behind the neat stack of skulls, tibias, and femurs in the Paris catacombs lies a chaos ...

This story appears in the February 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. Van Wedeen strokes ... then use a computer to order them into a stack. Slowly a three-dimensional image takes shape ...

This story appears in the January 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. Noon in the United ... a giant golf ball atop a 20-story pancake stack? All built by foreign laborers—South Asian ...

This story appears in the January 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the late 1980s ... I notice the encyclopedia resting on top of a stack of books, most of them for children.

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 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. It was tempting to ... snake venom with beeswax as an adhesive) or stack tortoises or stun fish using oxygen-depriving ...

A version of this story appears in the May 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. At National Geographic, we’ve helped you explore the world for 130 years. With the launch of the May print ...

This story appears in the January 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. We see evidence of ... Year after year, massive ice floes stack up in that relatively calm zone.