More from Laura Baisas

A close-up of extended polyps of an apparently healthy great star coral colony on a reef near Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The tentacles surrounding the mouth of each polyp help trap food particles for the coral to eat.
Animals

Caribbean coral is getting sick and dying. A probiotic could help.

By Laura Baisas

Mount Etna in Italy spews lava with snow around the top of the volcano.
Climate Change

Notes from meticulous medieval monks could illuminate this scientific wonder

By Laura Baisas

A snailfish that lives over 20,000 feet deep in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench in the northern Pacific Ocean.
Animals

Say hello to the deepest-dwelling fish ever caught on camera

By Laura Baisas

An adult elephant walks with two juvenile elephants.
Animals

Scientists may have figured out why elephants exhibit complex emotions

By Laura Baisas

A capuchin monkey in a tree looking at the camera.
Animals

Do magic tricks work on monkeys? Only if they have opposable thumbs like us.

By Laura Baisas

A woman holds an ultrasound photo of a baby.
Biology

Nearly 18 percent of the global population struggles with infertility

By Laura Baisas

An ostrich inspects eggs in a nest.
Animals

Troodons laid eggs in communal nests just like modern ostriches

By Laura Baisas

Scottish Tartans Authority chair John McLeish (right) and tartan historian Peter MacDonald (left), bring the Glen Affric tartan to V&A Dundee curator James Wylie (center) to be exhibited for the first time at the museum.
Archaeology

Slàinte mhath! The oldest piece of Scottish tartan fabric has been identified.

By Laura Baisas

Severe damage and debris of a home in Little Rock, Arkansas following a tornado.
Environment

Tornado outbreak killed dozens of people across the US this weekend

By Laura Baisas

A blue UV image of the planet Saturn.
NASA

Saturn’s rings have been slowly heating up its atmosphere

By Laura Baisas

Lolita the killer whale performing its 40th anniversary performance at Miami Seaquarium.
Animals

After 50 years in captivity, Lolita the orca may be freed

By Laura Baisas

A total solar eclipse, a bright ring of sunlight around a dark moon on July 2, 2019.
DIY

April’s skies boast the full pink moon, Lyrid meteor shower, and a total solar eclipse

By Laura Baisas

A juvenile Edmontosaurus disappears into the enormous, lipped mouth of Tyrannosaurus.
Biology

Scaly lips may have hidden the T-rex’s fearsome teeth

By Laura Baisas

A baby kisses a small dog
Animals

Babies who grow up around pets may be less likely to develop food allergies

By Laura Baisas

Polycirrus onibi, a newly discovered marine worm that glows in the dark, was named after a creature from Japanese folklore.
Animals

These newly discovered bioluminescent sea worms are named after Japanese folklore

By Laura Baisas

A medical professional holds a nasal spray version of naloxone, an opioid overdose reversal drug.
Health

FDA approves first over-the-counter opioid overdose treatment

By Laura Baisas

Three vials of COVID-19 vaccine in front of the World Health Organization's logo.
COVID-19

Healthy adults don’t need to keep getting COVID-19 boosters, says WHO

By Laura Baisas

Two surgeons operating in an operating room.
Diseases

The White House has a plan to overhaul the organ transplant network

By Laura Baisas

A baby song thrush bird looks up from the forest floor.
Animals

Postmortem poop can teach us a lot about the avian gut microbiome

By Laura Baisas

The parking lot outside a Buc-ee’s store in Temple, Texas.
Animals

A 15-million-year-old beaver was just named after an iconic convenience store

By Laura Baisas

Ilinizas Volcanoes under the Quilotoa lagoon in the Andes Mountains in Ecuador. Scientists recently discovered two new carnivorous plant species in the rugged high Andes.
Biology

Two newly discovered Andes Mountain plant species have an appetite for insects

By Laura Baisas

A Black woman smiles into a mirror at a salon for hair care.
Health

Researchers develop a new super-scientific way to understand curly hair

By Laura Baisas

A view of the destruction in Rolling Fork, Mississippi after deadly tornadoes and severe storms tore through the state. At least 25 people were killed and dozens more injured.
Environment

Recovery begins after devastating tornadoes hit Mississippi’s Lower Delta

By Laura Baisas

Two members of a medical team work on a diagnosis.
Diabetes

Weight might not be the best way to detect diabetes early

By Laura Baisas

An asteroid comes apart in the night sky.
Science

A ‘city-killer’ asteroid will cruise past Earth tonight

By Laura Baisas

Desert daisy tricks male flies with sexy evolutionary deception
Animals

Desert daisy tricks male flies with sexy evolutionary deception

By Laura Baisas

A white-tailed jackrabbit in it's winter white fur.
Animals

Jackrabbit’s color-changing fur may prepare them for climate change

By Laura Baisas

This illustration conceptualizes the swirling clouds identified by the James Webb Space Telescope in the atmosphere of exoplanet VHS 1256 b. The planet is about 40 light-years away and orbits two stars that are locked in their own tight rotation.
Deep Space

Gritty, swirling clouds of silica surround exoplanet VHS 1256 b

By Laura Baisas

A curled lock of composer Ludwig van Beethoven's hair with an inscription from the hair's former owner, Ignaz Moscheles.
Biology

We now have a full composition of Beethoven’s DNA

By Laura Baisas

A woman holes a pack of birth control pills in one hand, with a single pill in the other.
Cancer

What we know about hormonal birth control and breast cancer risk

By Laura Baisas

President Joe Biden standing at a podium, addressing the White House Conservation in Action Summit.
Climate Change

The US inches closer to protecting 30 percent of all its lands and oceans

By Laura Baisas

A bug on a green leaf feeding on a caterpillar.
Animals

Save caterpillars by turning off your outdoor lights

By Laura Baisas

Candida auris in a petri dish taken in a laboratory of Wuerzburg University in Wuerzburg, Germany, January 23, 2018.
Diseases

A drug-resistant fungus is spreading in US hospitals—here’s what you need to know

By Laura Baisas

An illustration of Thylacosmilus atrox, an extinct marsupial with giant canine teeth,
Animals

With bulging eyes and a killer smile, this sabertooth was an absolute nightmare

By Laura Baisas

A telescope from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope observe the universe.
NASA

Why scientists are studying the clouds of debris left in DART’s wake

By Laura Baisas

The sun shining on glaciers.
Biology

‘Humanity on thin ice’ says UN, but there is still time to act on climate change

By Laura Baisas

Attendees at a concert dance and one man records the performance on a smartphone.
Health

Do you never feel FOMO? Time to meet its twin, JOMO.

By Laura Baisas

Rain falling on a window and green plants.
Environment

How a wet winter and spring could help and hurt US states

By Laura Baisas

A child stands by a collapsed road caused by flooding waters due to heavy rains following Cyclone Freddy in Blantyre, Malawi, on March 13, 2023.
Environment

Deadly Cyclone Freddy could be the longest tropical cyclone on record

By Laura Baisas

Close up of a newly discovered orchid species named Spiranthes hachijoensis with pink petals,
Biology

This new species of pink orchid looks like delicate glasswork

By Laura Baisas

A Wedge-tailed Eagle, a large vulture native to Australia.
Animals

An extinct 10-foot-long eagle could pick up kangaroos with its terrifying talons

By Laura Baisas

Notre Dame cathedral in Paris with scaffolding and construction work following a fire in 2019.
Archaeology

The Notre Dame fire revealed a long-lost architectural marvel

By Laura Baisas

A French bulldog puppy running.
Animals

America has a favorite new dog breed, and it’s slightly problematic

By Laura Baisas

A mosquito biting a human arm.
Animals

How can we control mosquitos? Deactivate their sperm.

By Laura Baisas

A black widow spider side by side with a brown widow spiders, a fellow species in the same genus, Latrodectus.
Animals

Black widows battle their even deadlier cousins in a brutal spider war

By Laura Baisas

A warm of bees on a honeycomb.
Animals

Older bees teach younger bees the ‘waggle dance’

By Laura Baisas

Whitespotted eagle ray swimming in the ocean.
Agriculture

Scientists test different gear for protecting clams from ‘crunching’ rays

By Laura Baisas

A group of mice eats a scone.
Animals

Forget black coffee—a hormone shot helped tipsy rodents sober up

By Laura Baisas

A worm at the bottom of a shot glass of Mezcal.
Agriculture

What kind of worm is in your mezcal?

By Laura Baisas

Sun rays shining through clouds at sunset on Mars.
Mars

NASA’s Curiosity rover captures a moody Martian sunset for the first time

By Laura Baisas

Cars in a traffic jam emitting exhaust.
Climate Change

Almost everyone in the world breathes unhealthy air

By Laura Baisas

A printout cholesterol screening results.
Diseases

Safer statin alternative could be a better way to lower ‘bad’ cholesterol levels

By Laura Baisas

Three honeybees fly near a crocus in a field.
Animals

Like the first flying humans, honeybees use linear landmarks to navigate

By Laura Baisas

A pod of dolphins swimming together in blue water.
Animals

The ‘High-Seas Treaty’ to protect marine life in the open ocean finally makes progress

By Laura Baisas

Mexico's Monte Alban archaeological site, including stone step and structures with mountains in the distance.
Archaeology

What the longest-lasting Mesoamerican cities all had in common

By Laura Baisas

A drawing made by a five year-old child in Sweden with the description, “A boy coughed and put his hands over there (on the house) and someone came and touched it, then they got sick. X means that you shouldn't go outside and catch bacteria. The bacteria are underground. Blue faces mean you feel sick.”
COVID-19

Little kids drew their grim—and hopeful—reality of COVID

By Laura Baisas

A man holes a phones and texts with a combination of words and emois.
Health

People use emojis to soften the blow of negative feelings

By Laura Baisas

Two orca whales, one with it's head and flukes above the water and the other with its nose out of the water.
Animals

Toothed whales turned their vocal fry into a hunting superpower

By Laura Baisas

A giant lacewing as seen under a microscope. The insect is a moth relative with large wings.
Animals

A bug expert went shopping at Walmart—and made a historic insect discovery

By Laura Baisas

The entrance to the Mycenae citadel in Greece called the Lion Gate.
Agriculture

Details of life in Bronze Age Mycenae could lie at the bottom of a well

By Laura Baisas

The partner of one Caribbean flamingo helps it out in an argument with another pair.
Animals

Flamingoes have big personalities—and their friendships prove it

By Laura Baisas

Diabetes medicines and injectables on a plain blue background
Diabetes

Eli Lilly commits to cap insulin prices at $35 per month

By Laura Baisas

A white-bellied woodstar hummingbird flying. Their colorful throat feathers are believed to help them find a mate.
Animals

This hybrid hummingbird’s colorful feathers are a genetic puzzle

By Laura Baisas

A glassy-winged sharpshooter rests on a leaf.
Animals

Watch these tiny bugs catapult urine with their butts

By Laura Baisas