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In America’s country music capital, a new generation is stepping out from the shadows of its beloved honky-tonks. Meet the trailblazing female rappers singing ‘Music City’ a different song.

This story appears in the March 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Arndt shot more than 60,000 pictures, creating a portrait of wild honeybees unlike anything seen before.

Jamie Gustafson draws dinosaurs, sharks and pretty much anything else from the natural world. Some of his clients have ...

This story appears in the October 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... a newly drafted George Hirano (left), 18, posed for a portrait with his mother, Hisa Hirano, and father, Yasubei ...

Learn how a new type of ancestry tracing can unveil the full, dynamic picture of your family tree.

We've gathered the work of some outstanding women photographers to celebrate the last day of Women's History Month.

Researchers have created a way to see your family tree as a movie rather than a still portrait by tracing where your ancestors moved across the globe over time. The statistical method can also be used ...

National Geographic is giving some much-deserved recognition to the changemakers who help build a brighter future for the ...

Researchers have created a way to see your family tree as a movie rather than a still portrait ... in a certain geographic area can shift so much over time, geographic and national labels can ...

Early 20th-century photographs taken using the short-lived process reveal the luminosity, hue and texture of the clothes of ...

geographic and national labels can also be misleading, Bradburd says. "Saying you're 'genetically Irish' makes it seem like 'Irish' has always meant the same thing, and genetically we know that is ...