National Geographic Magazine

Amazing discoveries and experiences await you in every issue of National Geographic magazine. The latest news in science, exploration, and culture will open your eyes to the world’s many wonders.

WHAT’S COMING

Who Gets to Judge What’s Beautiful?

FLOWERS THAT STAY FRESH • A photographer makes bouquets from plants and art materials for images that are ever in bloom.

THE BACKSTORY • IN SEARCH OF A BETTER BIRTHDAY GIFT, THIS PHOTOGRAPHER CREATED WILDLY IMAGINATIVE—AND ENDURING—BOUQUETS.

Black Inventors: a Broader View • THE LEGACY OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN SCIENTISTS AND INNOVATORS SHOULD BE AS MUCH ABOUT HOW THEY LIVED AS WHAT THEY CREATED.

Mothers of Inventions

CAN THIS SEED TEACH A CARROT TO SURVIVE?

DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONT LINES OF SCIENCE AND INNOVATION

What feels your pain?

TOUGH TARDIGRADES: MIGHT IN MINIATURE • THE TINY MOSS DWELLERS PROTECT THEIR DNA FROM NATURE’S HARSHEST PUNISHMENTS.

Into the Storm • A PHOTOGRAPHER RUSHES TOWARD THE DANGER THAT MOST PEOPLE FLEE—AND CAPTURES SCENES OF SAVAGE NATURE.

HOW TO SET OFF A PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS

A VANISHING ADVENTURE

CHECKLIST • Here’s where to take in the sights and sounds of Carnival season around the world.

TREE TIME

TAROT’S ITALIAN ROOTS • FOR DEVOTEES OF THIS 600-YEAR-OLD ESOTERIC ART, A TRIP TO MILAN IS IN THE CARDS.

The Last Slave Ship • This is the story of the 108 people on board… …and of their descendants.

CRUEL COMMERCE

JOURNEY OF NO RETURN

SHACKLED AND UPROOTED

SAVING AFRICATOWN

OWNING THE PAST

PRAIRIE DIVIDE • AN AMBITIOUS PLAN TO RETURN THE GRASSLANDS OF CENTRAL MONTANA TO THE WILD SPLENDOR OF THE PAST FACES IMPASSIONED RESISTANCE FROM THE PRESENT.

TWO VISIONS COLLIDE

Redefining Beauty • The power of social media and the economics of fashion are helping to create a big-tent culture in which every woman can be celebrated as beautiful.

Marked by Beauty

Flamingo Bob • A BIRD CRASHES INTO A HOTEL WINDOW. UNABLE TO RETURN TO THE WILD, HE BECOMES A BELOVED SYMBOL OF CONSERVATION. THIS IS HIS STORY.

A Journey With Spice • TREKKING THROUGH AN OLD-GROWTH FOREST IN SOUTHEAST ASIA, IN SEARCH OF PRECIOUS CARDAMOM

Travel Wise: Sa Pa, Vietnam

TREVOR FROST • FROM OUR PHOTOGRAPHERS