This story appears in the September 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... you’ve been exposed to since conception. The new science of epigenetics is the study of how chemical changes ...

Experts say there are some real science-based benefits to the practice ... Photograph by Rebecca Hale, National Geographic Keep in mind: If you soak your beans in hard water, which has a high ...

He behaved like a gator basking in the sun rather than one in the middle of a science experiment ... An engraving of the scene created a national sensation in Great Britain.

"Just before the dinosaurs disappeared, I think a lot of them were chowing down on flowering plants," says Kirk Johnson of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Johnson has unearthed many fossils ...

This story appears in the September 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... But sponsored studies can shade the science, says Roizen. The National Dairy Council, for instance, “has ...

Nevertheless, Emmanuel Gheerbrant, a researcher for the National Center for Scientific ... Kirk Johnson of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. "The key to survival was to be small." ...

The potential military applications of light are straight out of science fiction ... of the answer from the world's largest laser, the National Ignition Facility. NIF is under construction ...

Photograph by Joel Sartore, National Geographic Photo Ark The earliest multicelled animals that survived the Precambrian fall into three main categories. The simplest of these soft-bodied ...