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A version of this story appears in the May 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. At National Geographic ... who was the first female chief scientist of the U.S. National Oceanic and ...

This story appears in the January 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Lots of people are talking about Avery Jackson, a nine-year-old girl from Kansas City who is the first transgender ...

This story appears in the July 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the digital age ... images out of our publications—but first an admission about a time when we didn’t.

This story appears in the January 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. The first face of the first Americans belongs to an unlucky teenage girl who fell to her death in a Yucatán cave some ...

Maps have been a cornerstone of National Geographic since they were published in the first issue of the magazine, in October 1888. The year 1915 witnessed the founding of the Map Department ...

This story originally published in the June 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the fall of ... bigger than President Barack Obama’s first one. People lie to cover up bad behavior ...

This story appears in the January 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. To a degree unimaginable ... and political aspects of gender. But first, we define our terms. This glossary was ...

This story appears in the February 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. In 1418 the town ... myth of the Italian Renaissance. When the first histories were written, the losers came off ...