More from Laura Baisas (Page 20)

An aerial view of a desert kite in the Jebel az-Zilliyat region of Saudi Arabia. The kite dates back to the Stone Age and was a kind of hunting trap.

Blueprints engraved in stone from Saudi Arabia and Jordan could be the world’s oldest

By Laura Baisas

Siler collingwoodi is a colorful, ant-mimicking spider found in China and Japan.

This spider pretends to be an ant, but not well enough to avoid being eaten

By Laura Baisas

A young baboon hangs from a thin tree branch.

Baboons can recover from childhood trauma with a little help from their friends

By Laura Baisas

Melting icebergs.

World set to ‘temporarily’ breach major climate threshold in next five years

By Laura Baisas

The skull of a victim of the explosion of earthquakes that accompanied the explosion of Mount Vesuvius in 79 ce.

‘Violent’ earthquakes accompanied the infamous volcanic eruption that buried Pompeii

By Laura Baisas

Two doctors performing lab tests, one looking into a microscope and the other using a pipette.

A once-forgotten antibiotic could be a new weapon against drug-resistant infections

By Laura Baisas

A positive pregnancy test.

Cannabis use in first trimester has ‘significant’ harmful effects on a fetus

By Laura Baisas

Bubbles in a dark carbonated soda.

Sugar substitutes won’t help you lose weight

By Laura Baisas

A blue butterfly on a pink flowering plant.

A ‘butterfly tree of life’ reveals the origins of these beautiful insects

By Laura Baisas

A coral reef in the Gulf of Eilat/Aqaba in the Red Sea. Corals here and in the Persian Gulf are particularly affected by light pollution.

Light pollution is messing with coral reproduction

By Laura Baisas

A closeup of Saturn's colorful rings. The image was taken on June 30, 2004 using the Cassini spacecraft’s Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph as it entered the planet’s orbit.

Saturn’s icy rings may be a relatively new addition to the gas giant’s signature look

By Laura Baisas

Extinct ‘thunder beasts’ went from mini to massive in the blink of an evolutionary eye

Extinct ‘thunder beasts’ went from mini to massive in the blink of an evolutionary eye

By Laura Baisas

A clownfish swimming in an anemone.

Baby anemonefish can rapidly change their genes to survive in the sea

By Laura Baisas

An donor relaxes their arm after donating blood.

FDA finalizes new rules on blood donation for gay and bisexual men

By Laura Baisas

Smoke stacks from a power plant emit smoke.

Power plants may face emission limits for the first time if EPA rules pass

By Laura Baisas

A spoon of creamy peanut butter over a slice of bread and surrounded by peanuts, shelled and unshelled.

A peanut allergy patch is making headway in trials with toddlers

By Laura Baisas

A mosquito hanging upside down on a leaf.

Can scented soap make you less of a mosquito buffet?

By Laura Baisas

A NASA satellite image of huge plumes of methane coming from fossil fuel fields in Turkmenistan.

Satellites traced super methane plumes to Turkmenistan’s gas fields

By Laura Baisas

Soft brie cheeses on a plate with their rind on top.

A hunk of cheese is a perfect playground for fungal antibiotics

By Laura Baisas

A new butterfly species with orange wings and black spots next to the eye of Sauron from the Lord of the Rings films.

Lord of the Rings villain Sauron inspires the name of new butterfly genus

By Laura Baisas

A koala in a leafy tree.

Endangered Species

Wild koalas are getting vaccinated against chlamydia

By Laura Baisas

A bat sea star on a dark background.

The blueprints for early organs may be hiding in sea stars

By Laura Baisas

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

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.

Hidden oceans could be lurking deep within Uranus’ moons

By Laura Baisas

A honeybee pollenating a yellow flower.

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

By Laura Baisas

A pregnant person holds their belly.

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.

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

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.

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

By Laura Baisas

An older woman sits on a hospital bed.

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

By Laura Baisas

Champagne being poured into two glasses.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Renaissance-era doctors used to taste their patients’ pee

By Laura Baisas

Dough being rolled out with flour sprinkled around it.

Check your pantry for two kinds of potentially contaminated flour

By Laura Baisas

A small partula snail crawls on a leaf.

Endangered Species

Researchers release more than 5,000 snails in the Pacific

By Laura Baisas

A bartender pours a light beer into a large glass.

Inventing lager was a huge mistake

By Laura Baisas

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

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.

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.

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.

FDA approves first fecal transplant pill

By Laura Baisas

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

Selfies are for memories, not just for vanity

By Laura Baisas

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

That melatonin gummy might be stronger than you need

By Laura Baisas

A mushroom called coprophilous grows in woods.

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.

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.

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.

Space Telescope

JWST captures an unprecedented ‘prequel’ to a galaxy

By Laura Baisas

A group of eight children running in an open field.

Is shyness something kids feel, or something kids are?

By Laura Baisas

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

Mudskippers blink—and that’s a huge evolutionary clue

By Laura Baisas

A male chimpanzee named Frodo frowns.

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

By Laura Baisas

A carnivorous Sarracenia plant growing in the wild.

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

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.

‘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.

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.

Endangered Species

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.

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.

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

By Laura Baisas

African penguins standing on a sandy beach.

Endangered Species

How African penguins continue to survive changes in climate

By Laura Baisas

Brown garden snail eating a strawberry on a white table

Experience the uncomfortable weirdness of a snail eating fruit

By Laura Baisas

Meteorites fall during a meteor shower.

Get ready to watch the Lyrid meteor shower peak this weekend

By Laura Baisas

A polar bear standing on ice.

Why the biggest animals move so slowly

By Laura Baisas

An orb weaver spider spins a web in a forest.

Spider glue might evolve faster than the spiders themselves

By Laura Baisas

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