Ben Guarino

Contributing editor

More from Ben Guarino

A seahorse in the Mediterranean,.

8 animal fathers that take care of their eggs

A gray asteroid against the black background of our solar system.

Why the heck is Earth wet?

A movie still from 'Psycho,' showing the silhouette of a man holding a knife.

Science Fiction

How horror movie soundtracks prey on our fears

An annular eclipse, with an orange solar ring around a black moon.

The best US parks for eclipse chasers to see October’s ‘Ring of Fire’

Runners forming a V-shape with marathoner Eluid Kipchoge in the rear, on a road beside trees.

The surprising strategy behind running the fastest marathon

Two astronauts walking in spacesuits in a desert

How do you keep a spacesuit clean? One answer is antimicrobial fabric.

A car passenger appears to feel nauseous with her hand to her mouth.

What causes motion sickness—and how to avoid it

JWST composite image of barred spiral galaxy NGC 5068, showing its core and part of a spiral arm. Clumps and filaments of dust, represented in a mossy green color, form an almost skeletal structure that follow the twist of the galaxy and its spiral arm.

15 remarkable JWST images that reveal the wonders of our vast universe

A woman running on a desert trail to burn the most calories.

Fitness & Exercise

These heart-pumping exercises burn the most calories

Feeling sad when your favorite show ends? It might be post-series depression.

Feeling sad when your favorite show ends? It might be post-series depression.

Dolphins use echolocation to find fish and navigate in the dark sea.

How echolocation lets bats, dolphins, and even people navigate by sound

Happy Mother’s Day to nature’s moms, especially spiders who feed themselves to their babies

Happy Mother’s Day to nature’s moms, especially spiders who feed themselves to their babies

By Lexi Krupp, Ben Guarino

ancient-style illustration of poseidon and workers building seawall

Inside the project to bring ‘self-healing’ Roman concrete to American shorelines

15 rocket launches from SpaceX, NASA, Blue Origin, and more in a collage

Rocket fuel might be polluting the Earth’s upper atmosphere

Baby with RSV in hospital ventilator. Nurse with blue glove is holding their foot.

Fighting RSV in babies starts with a mother’s antibodies

Apollo 15 astronaut on lunar rover in black and white NASA image

10 incredible lunar missions that paved the way for Artemis

By Ben Guarino, Purbita Saha

Nine patients with paralysis walking again with aides in various environments after electrode therapy. Black and white.

The slow, but promising progress of electrode therapy for paralysis

A winged insect fossil in rock is about 300 million years old, a fossil example of an early animal to take flight.

When insects got wings, evolution really took off