This story appears in the December 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. Assateague Island ... and thanks to a brisk wind, free of smoke from the wildfire burning just over the crest of ...

I got a piece of the answer from the world's largest laser, the National Ignition Facility ... inexhaustible, pollution-free electricity. "NIF will produce more power in a one-nanosecond laser ...

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"Most animals don’t get anything free from nature," he added "but as some pterosaurs and birds got larger, they stumbled upon evolutionary benefits from soaring, making use of a free energy source.

8 min read This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The maps here ... we’ll very likely create an ice-free planet, with an average temperature of perhaps ...

Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. In a world that ... in the dark, oxygen-free environment of a commercial landfill or in the cool waters of the ...

This story appears in the February 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. In 1418 the town ... to be cleared away free of charge by the money-grubbing citizenry after the dome was complete.

This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. When I met the cyborg ... a vitamin-rich protein. In a recent article in the Scientist, John Hawks, a ...

This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Outdoor photographer ... who runs the Ocean Conservancy’s Trash Free Seas program. “Accumulations like this are ...

Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. In a laboratory ... microplastics have chemical impacts, because free-floating pollutants that wash off the land ...