More from Laura Baisas (Page 12)

white cow's milk on a grocery store shelf

Bird flu virus traces detected in 1 in 5 pasteurized cow milk samples

By Laura Baisas

a small red squirrel with perked up ears sits on a tree branch

Early trauma can shorten a red squirrel’s lifespan

By Laura Baisas

left image- This rectangular image shows part of the martian surface as if the viewer is looking down and across the landscape, with the irregular, mottled ground appearing in swirled tones of brown and tan. right image- A slice of the martian surface is shown here. A rounded segment of an eroded crater basin is visible to the right. The key features seen across the image are dark spots with tendrils that are eerily reminiscent of spiders. These are visible in large numbers to the left, and scattered irregularly across the rest of the image.

Gassy geysers create ‘spiders’ on Mars

By Laura Baisas

a spike-toothed salmon fossil with its mouth open

This 400-pound prehistoric salmon had tusks like a warthog

By Laura Baisas

a bioluminescent coral shaped like a fan with a central hub

Bioluminescence may have evolved 300 million years earlier than scientists previously thought

By Laura Baisas

An artist’s concept of NASA’s Voyager 1 traveling through interstellar space–or the space between stars.

Greetings, Earth! NASA can understand Voyager 1 again

By Laura Baisas

an orange, black, and white lemur sits in a tree

Endangered Species

Critically endangered lemur attacked by vulnerable fosa in Madagascar

By Laura Baisas

a handwritten letter to ruth mallory from george mallory before he died on mount everest

Read the last letters by George Mallory, who died exploring Mt. Everest in 1924

By Laura Baisas

a circular lamprey mouth dotted with teeth

Lampreys offer clues to the origin of our fight-or-flight instinct

By Laura Baisas

an artist's illustration of a lava lake on one of jupiter's moons. it is primarily black as the magma has cooled with orange lava encircling it

Smooth lava lake on Jupiter’s moon sizzles in NASA aerial animations

By Laura Baisas

a juvenile shark following an autonomous underwater robot

Baby sharks stick to the shallows

By Laura Baisas

a cyllinder shaped new organelle called a nitroplast under a microscope

For the first time in one billion years, two lifeforms truly merged into one organism

By Laura Baisas

a galaxy that looks like an hourglass pinched at the center with a shining protostar

Space Telescope

Plunge into an immersive IMAX movie featuring the James Webb Space Telescope

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a large marine reptile beached on the sand, surrounded by two two-legged dinosaurs and several flying dinosaurs

New species of extinct marine reptile found with help from 11-year-old child

By Laura Baisas

an orange and black butterfly lands on a green leaf with purple flowers

This butterfly hybrid thrived against evolutionary odds

By Laura Baisas

a tardigrade floating around

How super resilient tardigrades can fix their radiation-damaged DNA

By Laura Baisas

an infected periodical cicada with a white fungal plug on its abdomen

This gnarly fungus makes cicadas hypersexual

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a black hole with a companion star. the star is bright with a blue line indicating where the black hole is.

Humongous stellar-mass black hole is the biggest ever found in Milky Way

By Laura Baisas

a toucan with an orange beak and black and white plumage sits in a tree with its mouth open

How fruit-eating birds could help regrow tropical forests

By Laura Baisas

a cicada with red eyes and large wings sits in a leaf

The Cicadapocalypse is nigh. 7 cicada facts to know before it hits.

By Laura Baisas

An artist’s impression of southeastern South Australia during the Pleistocene epoch showing various plants and animals that lived there alongside Protemnodon. The almost one-tonne Zygomaturus trilobus in the bottom right. None of the kangaroos shown is a Protemnodon, but there are two short-faced kangaroos in the center-right. One wallaby is also being attacked by a Tasmanian tiger (top left).

Super-muscular 374-pound kangaroos once thumped around Australia and New Guinea

By Laura Baisas

one bonobo yells at another bonobo in a tree

‘Peaceful’ bonobos bite and push each other, actually

By Laura Baisas

a close-up of an octopus eye

Why counting octopus ‘rings’ is crucial

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a shiny baby star surrounded by lines indicating magnetic fields

Baby stars release gassy ‘sneezes’ while forming

By Laura Baisas

a green sea turtle swims in a large aquarium tank.

Myrtle the Turtle ‘in robust condition’ at age 95

By Laura Baisas

two white beluga whales at the surface of the water

Toothed whales traded chewing for echolocation to evolve

By Laura Baisas

a transparent marine worm with two large reddish-orange eyes on the top of its head

Tiny worm with enormous eyes may have a ‘secret language’

By Laura Baisas

several grey and brown coins dating back from 650 to 670 CE

Lasers provide clues to an early medieval money mystery

By Laura Baisas

a close up of a brown-colored frog called Haddadus binotatus

Humans can’t hear these frogs screaming

By Laura Baisas

shelled and unshelled peanuts on a table

After 100 years, new guidelines propose rules for common food allergy treatment

By Laura Baisas

an insect called a matador bug on a green leaf. these bugs have red flag lookingsdecorations on their hind legs

These insects give off major red flags

By Laura Baisas

a small ferrit-like mammal from the jurassic period goes after a winged insect

New fossils of tiny, toothy early mammals could be a major missing link

By Laura Baisas

a juvenile chimpanzee in a forested habitat

Mining of materials needed for ‘green revolution’ puts great ape population at risk

By Laura Baisas

a swirling, purple galaxy in space

Older galaxies are more chaotic

By Laura Baisas

an yellow-ish bag of liver cells in a suspension.

Experimental treatment grows livers from lymph nodes

By Laura Baisas

three baby chickens standing in a nest with open and unopened eggshells

Why chickens probably crossed the Silk Road

By Laura Baisas

a flock of flamingoes standing

We were very wrong about birds

By Laura Baisas

a women blows her nose into a facial tissue while standing next to blooming white flowers

Spring allergy season is off to an even earlier start this year

By Laura Baisas

a full moon with some clouds obscuring it

April skygazing: A total solar eclipse, a meteor shower, and the Pink Moon

By Laura Baisas

a gecko with spots and a brown back

New tiny gecko species named after Vincent van Gogh

By Laura Baisas

a small bird called a chickadee with black, white, and grey feathers stands on a stick

How these feathery ‘memory geniuses’ remember where they stashed their food

By Laura Baisas

Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship the Nimrod, among the ice in McMurdo's Sound, Antarctica.

Cracking open a 117-year-old Antarctic milk time capsule

By Laura Baisas

the facial reconstruction of Emperor Wu, an ancient Chinese ruler of the Northern Zhou dynasty. he has dark hair, tan skin.

Scientists recreate the face of an ancient Chinese emperor

By Laura Baisas

dairy cows eating animal feed

Bird flu detected in dairy cow milk samples

By Laura Baisas

a prehistoric tooth in a lab

Rare traces of tooth decay and gum disease found in Bronze Age teeth

By Laura Baisas

the icy white core of a comet surrounded by green dust

Don’t miss your chance to see the cryovolcanic ‘devil comet’

By Laura Baisas

A songbird called the Japanese tit (Parus minor) perching on a rock in Thailand.

These birds appear to be signaling ‘after you’

By Laura Baisas

A beetle with black and white fuzz sits on a leaf.

New fluffy longhorn beetle discovered in Australia

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of an extinct species of pink river dolphin in murky water

Paleontologists uncover enormous fossilized river dolphin skull in Peru

By Laura Baisas

Kermit the Frog strumming the banjo, along with a fossil skull of Kermitops (left) and a modern frog skull (right). Kermitops’ discovery is filling in some major evolutionary gaps for amphibians.

New proto-amphibian species named after Kermit the Frog

By Laura Baisas

a black and white orca whale leaps out of the ocean while hunting a sea lion. another whale is surfacing near by.

How crafty orca whales hunt near submarine canyons

By Laura Baisas

A circular asteroid with a smaller rock orbiting it. The asteroid Dimorphos was captured by NASA’s DART mission just two seconds before the spacecraft struck its surface on September 26, 2022.

NASA’s asteroid blaster turned a space rock into an ‘oblong watermelon’

By Laura Baisas

An illustration of the Bronze Age stilt settlement uncovered at Must Farm in eastern England. Five circular dwellings stand above a boggy wetland.

Bronze Age village was ‘pretty cozy’—until Britain’s Pompeii

By Laura Baisas

a sign outside of a construction site reads "danger, asbestos removal in progress"

EPA rule finally bans the most common form of asbestos

By Laura Baisas

human remains uncovered in Sweden.

Kissing and eating during the Stone Age ‘could be lethal’

By Laura Baisas

Jackie and Shadow tending to the eggs as snow covers the region on March 7, 2024.

Sadly, these live-streamed bald eagle eggs likely won’t hatch

By Laura Baisas

a close up of the antlers of an irish elk

Ireland was once home to deer with massive 12-foot antlers

By Laura Baisas

A screenshot of one unidentified small hawkmoth unsuccessful visit to an orchid, recorded with a camera trap.

‘Spectacular’ new orchid species is pollinated by moths

By Laura Baisas

a group of burmese pythons

Scientists propose eating more python

By Laura Baisas

two men in scuba gear install a sound system by a coral reef

Healthy reef soundscapes can help degraded coral reefs grow

By Laura Baisas

several small and translucent glass eels on a yellow cloth

How citizen scientists are protecting ‘glass eels’

By Laura Baisas

NASA astronaut Scott Tingle is pictured during a 2018 spacewalk to swap out a degraded robotic hand on the Canadarm2.

International Space Station

‘Space headaches’ could be a real pain for astronauts

By Laura Baisas

a human wears a fox mask while feeding a baby fox in its care

Wildlife care staff wear fox masks to care for orphaned kit

By Laura Baisas

a group of black and white ring-tailed lemurs sitting in green trees.

Sorry, Darwin: Most male mammals aren’t bigger than females

By Laura Baisas

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