More from Laura Baisas

The cast of a Neanderthal skull on display at the Chemnitz State Museum of Archaeology in Germany on January 24, 2023.
Biology

How Neanderthal genetic material could influence nose shapes to this day

By Laura Baisas

A NASA image of the planet Uranus with six of its 27 known moons, Ariel, Puck, Miranda, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon, labeled.
Moons

Hidden oceans could be lurking deep within Uranus’ moons

By Laura Baisas

A honeybee pollenating a yellow flower.
Animals

What busy bees’ brains can teach us about human evolution

By Laura Baisas

World Health Organization WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a press briefing at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, April 6, 2023. On the eve of its 75th anniversary, the WHO marked the occasion on Thursday by calling for a renewed drive for health equity in the face of unprecedented threats.
COVID-19

COVID-19 is no longer a ‘global health emergency,’ says WHO

By Laura Baisas

A pregnant person holds their belly.
Health

Doctors perform first in-utero brain surgery to treat rare condition

By Laura Baisas

Amazonian dark earth (ADE) is a nutrient rich dark soil that could play a role in reforestation.
Biology

How 2,000-year-old soil could be a lifeline for the Amazon rainforest

By Laura Baisas

A microscope image from an experiment conducted for a study on continental crust. The image contains glass (brown), large garnets (pink), and other small mineral crystals. The field of view is 410 microns wide, about size of a sugar crystal
Science

The mystery behind the unique chemistry of Earth’s continents

By Laura Baisas

A rock called Grotte Mandrin with a mountain in Mediterranean France. The cave records some of the earliest migrations of Homo Sapiens in Europe.
Archaeology

Humans and Neanderthals could have lived together even earlier than we thought

By Laura Baisas

An older woman sits on a hospital bed.
Diseases

FDA approves first RSV vaccine for adults after 60 years in the making

By Laura Baisas

Champagne being poured into two glasses.
Physics

The physics of champagne’s fascinating fizz

By Laura Baisas

Woolly mammoth tusks in dawn light on Wrangel Island, northeast Siberia, where the female mammoth tusk used in the testosterone study had been found several years earlier.
Animals

Male woolly mammoths had hormone-fueled bouts of aggression

By Laura Baisas

Fluorescent dye shown crossing the blood-brain barrier into the brain via sound waves.
Cancer

Scientists have developed a new way to fight a nearly untreatable brain cancer

By Laura Baisas

An illustration of the organisms that lived in the Castle Bank community.
Animals

Fossil trove in Wales is a 462-million-year-old world of wee sea creatures

By Laura Baisas

Ligurian plates recovered from the hospital waste dump that date back to the second half of the 16th century CE.
Archaeology

Renaissance-era doctors used to taste their patients’ pee

By Laura Baisas

Dough being rolled out with flour sprinkled around it.
Food Safety

Check your pantry for two kinds of potentially contaminated flour

By Laura Baisas

A small partula snail crawls on a leaf.
Animals

Researchers release more than 5,000 snails in the Pacific

By Laura Baisas

A bartender pours a light beer into a large glass.
Biology

Inventing lager was a huge mistake

By Laura Baisas

The Milky Way rises in a night sky with a pink hue.
Science

Meteors, flower moons, and more will light up the cosmos in May

By Laura Baisas

An adult male and adult female California sea lion sit on a beach surrounded by pups.
Animals

Male California sea lions have gotten bigger and better at fighting

By Laura Baisas

Balto's taxidermy on display at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
Animals

How different is Balto, the heroic sled dog, from today’s Siberian huskies?

By Laura Baisas

A lab technician in a glove swabs a circular petri dish.
Diseases

FDA approves first fecal transplant pill

By Laura Baisas

A group of six young people take a selfie on a beach.
Health

Selfies are for memories, not just for vanity

By Laura Baisas

A woman just waking up in bed turns off an analog alarm clock.
Food Safety

That melatonin gummy might be stronger than you need

By Laura Baisas

A mushroom called coprophilous grows in woods.
Animals

What prehistoric poop reveals about extinct giant animals

By Laura Baisas

Three small cornstalks grows in a saturated farm field on May 29, 2019 near Emden, Illinois. Near-record rainfall in parts of Illinois caused farmers to delay their spring corn planting that year.
Environment

California and the Midwest prep for floods with record levels of snow melt

By Laura Baisas

An artist's impression of Watling Lodge fortlet, which also once stood along the Antonine Wall, and would have been similar to the fortlet discovered near Carleith Farm.
Archaeology

Archaeologists found a lost Roman fortlet in Scotland

By Laura Baisas

The seven galaxies highlighted in this James Webb Space Telescope image have been confirmed to be at a distance that astronomers refer to as redshift 7.9, which correlates to 650 million years after the Big Bang.
Deep Space

JWST captures an unprecedented ‘prequel’ to a galaxy

By Laura Baisas

A group of eight children running in an open field.
Health

Is shyness something kids feel, or something kids are?

By Laura Baisas

Two mudskippers fighting in the mud, with eyes and pectoral fins exposed.
Animals

Mudskippers blink—and that’s a huge evolutionary clue

By Laura Baisas

A male chimpanzee named Frodo frowns.
Animals

Nice chimps finish last—so why aren’t all of them mean?

By Laura Baisas

A carnivorous Sarracenia plant growing in the wild.
Animals

Carnivorous pitcher plants may use tempting aromas to lure prey to their death

By Laura Baisas

Supreme Court votes to allow access to abortion drug, for now
Health

Supreme Court votes to allow access to abortion drug, for now

By Laura Baisas

Emae Island, one of the Outlier islands located in Central Vanuatu.
Archaeology

‘Fingerprints’ confirm the seafaring stories of adventurous Polynesian navigators

By Laura Baisas

An animal coffin with a human-headed part-eel, part-cobra figure wearing a double crown. The figure is associated with Atum, an ancient Egyptian god of pre-existence and post-existence.
Archaeology

Ancient Egyptians mummified animals and put them in beautiful tiny coffins

By Laura Baisas

A forest elephant with a raised trunk surrounded by greenery. Forest elephants are much smaller in size compared to savanna elephants, and their ears are an oval shape.
Animals

Elephants and humans share surprising similarities. A new docuseries dives deep into that relationship.

By Laura Baisas

Gray hair growing on a male's head.
Biology

What’s at the root of gray hairs?

By Laura Baisas

Dark clouds as a supercell thunderstorm develops on May 10, 2017 in Olustee, Oklahoma. Scientists and meteorologists from the Center for Severe Weather Research are getting a closer look to learn more about these destructive storms.
Environment

‘Erratic’ tornado hits Oklahoma as storms barrel east from the Great Plains

By Laura Baisas

African penguins standing on a sandy beach.
Animals

How African penguins continue to survive changes in climate

By Laura Baisas

Brown garden snail eating a strawberry on a white table
Animals

Experience the uncomfortable weirdness of a snail eating fruit

By Laura Baisas

Meteorites fall during a meteor shower.
DIY

Get ready to watch the Lyrid meteor shower peak this weekend

By Laura Baisas

A polar bear standing on ice.
Animals

Why the biggest animals move so slowly

By Laura Baisas

An orb weaver spider spins a web in a forest.
Animals

Spider glue might evolve faster than the spiders themselves

By Laura Baisas

Examples of floating plastics collected in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre during The Ocean Cleanup’s 2018 expedition.
Animals

Some coastal critters are thriving in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

By Laura Baisas

Two carpet beetles on a white flower.
Animals

Ancient beetles had a taste for dinosaur feathers

By Laura Baisas

The dig at the Villa of the Quintilii. The cella vinaria are in the foreground and treading floor and presses are behind.
Archaeology

This ancient Roman villa was equipped with wine fountains

By Laura Baisas

People walk in a field with blooming poppy flowers near the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve following an unusually wet winter on April 14, 2023 near Lancaster, California. Historic levels of rainfall fell in some parts of California, amid a barrage of atmospheric river winter storms, which has led to a 'super bloom' of wildflowers in certain parts of the state this spring.
Biology

California’s eye-popping super bloom is one for the books

By Laura Baisas

An artist’s illustration of Diamantinasaurus matildae’s head. This sauropod lived in Australia 100 million years ago.
Dinosaurs

A rare, 95-million-year-old titanosaur skull found in Australia

By Laura Baisas

Planes sit at their gates after the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport was closed due to the runways being flooded on April 13, 2023 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The heavy rain caused flooding as the region recorded rainfall totals of more than a foot.
Climate Change

Southern Florida got 26 inches of rain in 24 hours

By Laura Baisas

An artistic rendering of the open woodland habitat reconstruction at Moroto II with Morotopithecus bishopi vertically climbing with infant on back and Mount Moroto, an active, in background.
Animals

A plant-based diet full of leaves may have helped apes stand upright

By Laura Baisas

Packages of Juul e-cigarettes are displayed for sale on June 22, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.
Health

Juul will pay $462 million for marketing e-cigs to teens

By Laura Baisas

Skeleton of paratype of Icaronycteris gunnelli, the oldest bat skeletons ever found.
Animals

Oldest bat skeleton ever found by paleontologists finally has a name

By Laura Baisas

A black sea cucumber on the floor of the Indian Ocean.
Animals

Sea cucumbers have a Spiderman-esque superpower—and it involves their butts

By Laura Baisas

A masked lab worker uses a pipette and a test tube.
COVID-19

White House invests $5 billion in new COVID vaccines and treatments as national emergency ends

By Laura Baisas

Artist's concept of JUICE spacecraft at Jupiter
Moons

Follow the JUICE mission as it launches to Jupiter and its many mysterious moons

By Laura Baisas

A bird called an American Redstart sits on the branch of a tree.
Animals

Delaying departure may help birds migrate around climate change

By Laura Baisas

A doctor examines a child's throat with a tongue depresser.
Diseases

Kids all over the US are getting strep, but antibiotics are hard to come by

By Laura Baisas

A juvenile elephant named Ko Raya (left) with Pang Pha (right) at the Berlin Zoo. Scientists believe that Pang Pha taught herself how to peel bananas.
Animals

Pang Pha the elephant learned to peel bananas by mimicking humans

By Laura Baisas

A pregnant patient gets a blood pressure reading in a medical setting.
Diseases

Scheduled childbirth might reduce preeclampsia risk by half

By Laura Baisas

Three Mifeprex abortion pills at the The Hope Center for Women in Granite City, Illinois, three months after the FDA’s approval of the drug in September 2000.
Health

Competing rulings put access to abortion pill in jeopardy

By Laura Baisas

Pale blue Uranus with clearly detailed rings captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope
Deep Space

Ice giant Uranus shows off its many rings in new JWST image

By Laura Baisas

Woolly mammoths evolved tiny ears over 700,000 years in Siberia
Animals

Woolly mammoths evolved tiny ears over 700,000 years in Siberia

By Laura Baisas

Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees hits a home run against the Boston Red Sox during the eighth inning at Fenway Park on September 13, 2022 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Climate Change

Hotter weather could be changing baseball

By Laura Baisas

Icebergs over the ocean in Greenland.
Climate Change

Antarctic ice can melt 20 times faster than we thought

By Laura Baisas

An illustration of the Earth's core with arrows showing how seismographs in Antarctica monitor the core.
Science

There might be underground ‘mountains’ near Earth’s core

By Laura Baisas