When the year began, we penciled into our publication calendar the idea to finish 2025 by naming a Portlander of the Year. By ...

Rick Ganley, Host of NHPR's Morning Edition: A stand-out moment for me in 2025 was sharing a stage with Peter Wolf, musician and Boston rock royalty. Growing up in New England with J. Geils Band ...

When the shopping mall feels too predictable and online browsing too impersonal, the Coronado Swap Meet offers an adventure where $35 fills shopping bags with treasures, stories, and the satisfaction ...

This clever sticker printer for kids is AI hardware I can get behind I've been skeptical about a lot of AI-first gadgets over the last couple of years – the Rabbit R1 and the Humane Pin come to mind – ...

On December 5, Amphibian Foundation will host an open house with activities, live amphibians, and tours of the new space. Mark Mandica has spent the past few months sweating about the fate of the ...

They say every generation thinks it's the end of the world. But the Santa Cruz long-toed salamander has been staring at oblivion since 1967 That’s the year the amphibian was listed under the ...

The see-through amphibians have an amazing strategy for hiding while asleep—one that could advance our understanding of blood clotting. The organs and developing eggs of a female glass frog, ...

This is Blob. Blob can't do much, like lift his own head. He doesn't even have a head. If Blob had been born with a spine, or backbone, he would have been a vertebrate. If we give Blob some legs and a ...

Planet earth is quite an amazing place, because it’f full of life. From creatures that are so small we can’t even see them, to creatures that are so huge they could squash a whole house. Each ...

As autumn descends and temperatures drop, North America’s amphibians and reptiles, also known as herpetofauna, scramble to make their final moves. Unlike warm-blooded animals, these creatures don’t ...

You will be redirected to our submission process. The fossil record is crucial for understanding the origins and diversification of amphibians and reptiles. New discoveries continuously yield new ...