October 2022 Issue

Meet fantastic beasts created by ‘painting’ with light

A photographer uses slow shutter speeds and rapid strokes of illumination to depict the menagerie in his mind's eye.

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Want to live longer? Influence your genes.

This podcaster helps communities tell stories for change

In space, flames become otherworldly

This bridge in northern Pakistan is a surreal span

This filmmaker is 'totally obsessed with the natural world'

When mating season arrives, these frogs melt

Inside the Irish ‘hell caves’ where Halloween was born

How two photographers got inside the minds of animals

Jasper Doest and Paolo Verzone were among the photographers who captured the rich inner lives of animals for National Geographic’s October cover story.

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October 2022 Issue

What are animals thinking?

Why we set out to uncover the mysteries of animal minds

A 2,000-mile journey across the Taliban’s Afghanistan

The Alps' magical ice caves risk vanishing

Their identity was forged through resistance