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The Black-Footed Ferret Is Getting a Second Chance on the Great Plains
Once feared extinct, North America’s rarest mammal is benefiting from captive breeding, prairie restoration, and a pioneering cloning effort designed to preserve genetic diversity.
Read more →Watson Woods: How a Prescott Creek Became a Living Room for Wildlife and Neighbors
Along Granite Creek in Prescott, Watson Woods Riparian Reserve shows how a community can protect a fragile waterway while creating a welcoming place for walking, birding and learning.
Read more →Bashō’s Narrow Road: How a Japanese Journey Became a New Way to See the World
In 1689, Matsuo Bashō set out across northern Japan. The book that grew from the journey transformed travel into a meditation on landscape, memory, impermanence, and the art of paying…
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MOXIE: How a Small Machine on Mars Learned to Make Oxygen
A shoebox-sized experiment aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover demonstrated that future explorers may be able to produce oxygen from the thin Martian atmosphere…
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Webb Finds a Galaxy From the Universe’s First 300 Million Years
The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed an exceptionally distant galaxy, giving astronomers a rare view of how the first generations of…
Read more →The Settlement Cookbook: How a Milwaukee Neighborhood Put Its Kitchen Wisdom in Print
First published in 1901 as a fundraiser for a Milwaukee settlement house, The Settlement Cook Book carried immigrant cooking, household instruction, and…
Read more →Prescott’s Night Sky Is Becoming a Place Worth Protecting
In Yavapai County, the darkness above Prescott is gaining recognition as part of the public landscape. Lighting rules, outdoor recreation and astronomy…
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Banu Mushtaq’s “Heart Lamp” Makes Literary History for Kannada Fiction
Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi have won the 2025 International Booker Prize for Heart Lamp, the first Kannada work to receive…
Read more →The Oxford English Dictionary: How Millions of Words Became a History of Language
The Oxford English Dictionary began as an ambitious Victorian project and grew into something larger: a record of how English changes, one…
Read more →Prescott’s Courthouse Plaza: How a Territorial Square Became Yavapai County’s Shared Living Room
In the center of Prescott, a courthouse square still does the quiet work of a town commons—holding history, public life, celebration, and everyday pauses in one walkable place.
