More from Laura Baisas (Page 2)

several stone tools uncovered in a cave
Archaeology

Archaeologists hike up a cliff and find 20,000-year-old stone tools

By Laura Baisas

a pug named Doug stands on a red carpet with his tongue hanging out the side of his mouth
Animals

People tend to trust ‘pet-fluencers’ over human influencers

By Laura Baisas

a stone altar
Archaeology

Archeologists find ancient child remains inside Maya altar

By Laura Baisas

This Hubble image shows Uranus and dynamic aurora activity on 10 October 2022. The centered planet is dominated by a blue hue and a large white region in the lower left. A faint ring is also visible around the planet. Fuzzy blue/purple regions hovering over the planet on the left and ride indicate the presence of aurorae
Deep Space

Uranus has a longer day than astronomers thought

By Laura Baisas

An artistic rendering of the newly discovered binary star system in the moment where the first white dwarf has just exploded, hurtling material towards its nearby companion which is on the cusp of explosion too. This event will occur in about 23 billion years, yet in only 4 seconds do both stars explode
Science

Astronomers find spiraling stars heading towards a rare cosmic explosion

By Laura Baisas

three men work on planting a tree
Agriculture

A tree with 40 different fruits planted in Philadelphia

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of several mouths talking
Biology

How to talk for a very, very long time

By Laura Baisas

An illustration showing how the brain and gut are connected.
Biology

The brain remembers what gave you food poisoning

By Laura Baisas

an adult eagle tends to two chicks on a nest
Animals

Jackie and Shadow’s eaglets officially named: Meet Sunny and Gizmo

By Laura Baisas

several lightning strikes in the distance. a man crouches down in a squatting position with his hands over his ears. a red circle with a line through it is over the image, indicating that this is not what to do during lightning
Environment

Actually, it’s not safe to crouch during a lightning storm

By Laura Baisas

The Greater mouse-tailed bat flies through the night sky, searching for insects
Animals

How bats avoid crashing into one another

By Laura Baisas

This photo taken on July 10, 2024 shows part of an Apatosaurus' dinosaur skeleton at the Dampierre-en-Yvelines castle in France prior to an auction.
Science

Earth’s 5 catastrophic mass extinctions, explained

By Laura Baisas

an baby orca surfaces behind its mother
Animals

Baby orca is a descendent of a whale almost sold to SeaWorld in 1976

By Laura Baisas

three elephants crossing a river
Animals

Elephants avoid wasting energy during their epic journeys

By Laura Baisas

a hummingbird with blue, green, purple, and white feathers sucks nectar out of a yellow flower
Animals

Baby hummingbird appears to mimic caterpillar to avoid death

By Laura Baisas

Looking south from near a pullout along the Mammoth to Norris road just north of the Nymph Lake overlook. On the other side of the marsh is a tree-covered rhyolite lava flow, and at the base of the flow is a new thermal feature marked by a plume of steam that formed in early August 2024.
Environment

Keep an eye on Yellowstone’s steamy new hydrothermal vent

By Laura Baisas

An 1803 portrait of Schinderhannes (left). Recent Genetic analyses have now also made it possible to determine the color of his skin, eyes, and hair, as well as positively identifying his skeleton (right).
Archaeology

Famed German robber’s skeleton identified after 220-year-long mix-up

By Laura Baisas

a small bird with yellow plumage stands on a branch with its mouth wide open
Animals

Traffic noise is making these Galápagos birds more aggressive

By Laura Baisas

a green iguana sitting at the base of a palm tree
Animals

After a 5,000-mile float, these iguanas probably set an ocean record

By Laura Baisas

a man with long dark hair and beard is wearing a white and green robe and holding a shepherd's crook. he is a actor portraying saint patrick
Archaeology

Where are St. Patrick’s remains? It’s a hot debate.

By Laura Baisas

Artistic reconstruction of the terrestrial ecological landscape before the end Permian mass extinction based on fossil palynomorphs, plants, and tetrapods recovered, as well as sedimentological data from the South Taodonggou Section
Animals

The remote locale that shielded plants during Earth’s biggest mass extinction

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of the planet saturn as seen from one of its many moons two other smaller moons are in the distance
Moons

Which planet has the most moons? Saturn dethrones Jupiter.

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a small weasel-like early mammal with brown, black, and white fur climbing on a tree
Animals

This extinct tree-dwelling mammal may be among humans’ closer relatives

By Laura Baisas

a man on a boat holds a large orange pet goldfish
Animals

Please stop releasing pet goldfish into the wild

By Laura Baisas

three small and gray balg eaglets eat fish given to them by an adult bald eagle
Animals

Bald eagle live cam team shares what’s next for the 3 eaglets

By Laura Baisas

Flagstones enclosure seen shortly after construction in the middle Neolithic period.
Archaeology

This ‘unusual’ stone circle may predate Stonehenge

By Laura Baisas

A mother humpback whale and her calf swimming in warm waters.
Animals

Whale pee moves vital nutrients thousands of miles

By Laura Baisas

bald eagle feeds babies fresh fish
Animals

Jackie and Shadow’s third eaglet has landed

By Laura Baisas

An illustration of the titanosaur Chadititan calvoi and the other Cretaceous Period organisms it lived with.
Dinosaurs

New 22-foot-long titanosaur discovered in Argentina

By Laura Baisas

a green frog with its eyes and mouth sticking out of a shallow pool of water
Animals

Earth’s ‘Great Dying’ killed 80-90% of life. How some amphibians survived.

By Laura Baisas

two baby eagles tended to by their parent
Animals

The famous bald eagle nest live cam is back and we have 3 baby eaglets

By Laura Baisas

a large hornet dismembers a honey bee
Animals

1,400 different bug species found in the guts of Asian hornets

By Laura Baisas

A colorful, glowing nebula that reaches beyond the top and bottom of the image. It is made of translucent clouds of gas: wispy and thin with hard edges in some places, and puffy and opaque in others. Blue, red and yellow colours mix together, showing light emitted by different types of atoms in the hot gas. Bright and pointlike stars are scattered across the nebula. The background is black
Deep Space

Candy-colored atoms shine in new image of the Veil Nebula

By Laura Baisas

three eggs in a nest. the egg on the right has a pip, which is the first crack in a shell. the pip is circled in red
Animals

Pips spotted! Live cam bald eagles’ eggs shows hopeful signs of hatching

By Laura Baisas

three narwhals with long tusks swim in the arctic ocean
Animals

Narwhals spotted using tusks for non-mating fun

By Laura Baisas

A polar bear mom and cub on sea ice, off the coast of Svalbard, Norway.
Animals

See the first moments when 3 polar bear cubs emerge from their den

By Laura Baisas

a humpback whale lunches out of the water with its mouth open
Animals

Krill or anchovy? Baleen whale songs may indicate what’s on the menu

By Laura Baisas

a skill with an iron nail driven through it
Archaeology

New clues to the ‘nailed head ritual’ uncovered in Spain

By Laura Baisas

The full disc of Mars is seen with the polar ice caps slightly off centre to the top left and bottom right. Clouds wrap around the planet’s curved horizons. Dark surface markings are clearly seen against the characteristic red tones of the dusty martian surface.
Mars

Why is Mars red? Our old understanding might be wrong.

By Laura Baisas

a newly discovered species of plant. it has fuzzy white wool on its green leaves, a yellow center, and two small red flowers
Biology

New species of fuzzy sunflower found by national park volunteer

By Laura Baisas

two side by side illustrations. on the left, a man with a red background sweating next to a thermometer with a high temperature. on the right, a man with a blue background shivering next to a thermometer with a lower temperature
Ask Us Anything

What is ‘feels-like’ temperature? A meteorologist explains.

By Laura Baisas

a large bird with a long neck and black plumage called an emu walking around in nature
Animals

Emus might not be the ‘world’s dumbest bird’ after all

By Laura Baisas

An illustration of the landscape of Cretaceous Australia. The mega raptor is standing on the right river bank and Carcharodontosaurus is on the left.
Dinosaurs

A 20-foot-long ‘mega raptor’ once stalked Australia

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of two orchids and their root systems. one is growing near decomposing wood and fungi and has more flowers. the other is still growing, but does not have as many flowers
Biology

Parasitic orchids ditch photosynthesis for fungi

By Laura Baisas

a close up of a diver wearing a mask and a fish swimming towards him
Animals

Wild fish can recognize human divers

By Laura Baisas

a large orange circle surrounded by a blue square
Black Holes

Astrophysicists surprised by light show around the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of an extinct big cat about the size of a leopard. it is brown with sharp teeth
Animals

Skull of a 30-million-year-old apex predator discovered in Egypt

By Laura Baisas

a cuttlefish swimming in the ocean
Animals

Cuttlefish ink can help keep sharks away from humans

By Laura Baisas

Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Captain America in Marvel Studios’ CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD.
Engineering

Could we really make Captain America’s shield? A materials scientist weighs in.

By Laura Baisas

a seal with grey coloring wearing an orange heart rate monitor around its abdomen
Animals

Baby seals are wearing heart monitors–for science

By Laura Baisas

one jaw fossil and six vertebrae fossils lined up
Animals

500,000 years ago, a bunch of animals fell into a Florida sink hole

By Laura Baisas

a turtle peeks its head out of the water
Animals

These sea turtles ‘dance’ when magnetic fields lead them to a snack

By Laura Baisas

a hand written text from the 16th century CE
Archaeology

500-year-old Transylvanian diaries detail the peril of the Little Ice Age

By Laura Baisas

A blow fly larva disguised as a termite, antennae and all.
Animals

Rare fly species wears fake termite head to infiltrate nests

By Laura Baisas

The Earth's internal layers including the mantle, outer core, and inner core.
Science

Earth’s inner core is less solid than we thought

By Laura Baisas

The ring of light surrounding the centre of the galaxy NGC 6505, captured by ESA’s Euclid telescope, is a stunning example of an Einstein ring. NGC 6505 is acting as a gravitational lens, bending light from a galaxy far behind it. The almost perfect alignment of NGC 6505 and the background galaxy has bent and magnified the light from the background galaxy into a spectacular ring. This rare phenomenon was first theorised to exist by Einstein in his general theory of relativity. This wide field shows the extended stellar halo of NGC 6505 and showcases the Einstein ring, surrounded by colourful foreground stars and background galaxies.
Deep Space

Extremely rare ‘Einstein ring’ discovered close to Earth

By Laura Baisas

a long python snake coiled in the grass with its head poking up
Animals

Hunting for Burmese pythons is best done in the dark

By Laura Baisas

a close up of a brightly colored mantis shrimp. they have two buldging eyes and greenish-yellow side appendages that they use to punch
Animals

How mantis shrimp protect their powerful ‘fists’ of fury

By Laura Baisas

a black and white dog called a border collie sniffs around green grass
Animals

Border collies out-sniff some hunting dogs in scientific smell competition

By Laura Baisas

an orange kitten with its paw up
Animals

Relax, Whiskers. Scotland is not banning cats

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of two long-beaked birds diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with circular ammonites and long plesiosaurs for company.
Animals

After the asteroid, the earliest bird ancestors thrived in Antarctica

By Laura Baisas

A close-in image of a protoplanetary disc around a newly formed star. Many different wavelengths of light are combined and represented by separate and various colours. A dark line across the centre is the disc, made of opaque dust: the star is hidden in here and creates a strong glow in the centre. A band going straight up is a jet, while other outflows form flares above and below the disc, and a tail coming off to one side.
Deep Space

Newborn stars surround a planet-forming disk 450 million light years away

By Laura Baisas

a tiny green frog looking up from water
Animals

Frogs rescued from a deadly fungus welcome 33 froglets

By Laura Baisas

People gather around a tall bonze sculpture of a dragon that emits actual fire
Energy

Fire-breathing dragon sculpture not allowed to breathe fire

By Laura Baisas