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This story appears in the November 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine ... is perhaps the strongest incentive for leasing a solar system. Shiv Kumar, a 20-year-old laborer in Madhotanda ...

Hassan Sharif is a world-renowned conceptual artist, and the purpose of his three-dimensional creations is to emphasize their ...

With a radius of 2,106 miles, Mars is the seventh largest planet in our solar system and about half the diameter of Earth. Its surface gravity is 37.5 percent of Earth’s. Mars rotates on its ...

Tubeworm larvae, sea snails, and marine worms were uncovered living in tiny caves underneath the ocean floor, revealing life is interconnected below and above it.

This story appears in the June 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine ... The flare Carrington had observed heralded a solar superstorm—an enormous electromagnetic outburst that sent ...

Those in a binary star system may have a strong enough gravitational pull to gather in material from a neighboring star. When a white dwarf takes on enough mass in this manner it reaches a level ...

This story appears in the November 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine ... by waste heat from a nearby factory, and by solar panels that now cover the roof of the bunker, supported by ...

The digestive system is the series of tubelike organs that convert our meals into body fuel. There are about 30 feet (9 meters) of these convoluted pipeworks, starting with the mouth and ending ...