The Earth's plates jostle about in fits and starts that are punctuated with earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. 4 min read There are a few handfuls of major plates and dozens of smaller ...

Precambrian time covers the vast bulk of the Earth's history ... Photograph by Joel Sartore, National Geographic Photo Ark The earliest multicelled animals that survived the Precambrian fall ...

This edition of Bonza highlights themes like Animals, Travel, Planet Earth, Humanity and Science. Based on the popular National Geographic Channel TV show by the same name, Doomsday Preppers ...

Photographed at the Elizabeth Moore International Center for Coral Reef Research & Restoration This story appears in the March 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. On the southeast coast of ...

The visible universe—including Earth, the sun, other stars, and galaxies—is made of protons, neutrons, and electrons bundled together into atoms. Perhaps one of the most surprising discoveries ...

Sandbars swirl beneath Oregon Inlet in Cape Hatteras National Seashore on North ... Weathering and erosion slowly chisel, polish, and buff Earth's rock into ever evolving works of art—and ...

Learn about the time period that took place 23 to 2.6 million years ago. 3 min read From afar, Earth looked much as it does today when the Neogene period began. But looks are deceiving.

This story appears in the February 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine ... eventually hold the venom toxins of every animal on Earth. His quest also takes him out to sea.

This story appears in the February 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine ... off-limits even to the corrupting influence of science. But that calculation changed during Congo's 1997 civil ...

Just a sugar cube of neutron star matter would weigh about one hundred million tons on Earth. A neutron star's almost incomprehensible density causes protons and electrons to combine into neutrons ...

This story appears in the August 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine ... each of which ranks among the deadliest creatures on Earth. They include Anopheles gambiae, which transmits the ...

The potential military applications of light are straight out of science fiction ... sail to catch the "wind" of light beamed from an Earth-based laser. In theory such a craft could accelerate ...