More from Laura Baisas (Page 20)

A close up of a skull and teeth.

Plague DNA was just found in 4,000-year-old teeth

By Laura Baisas

A walker in sneakers, with the bottom of the shoe visible.

Fitness & Exercise

Evolution of human foot arches put the necessary pep in our upright steps

By Laura Baisas

A sloth hangs in a tree in Costa Rica. The mammals have the slowest digestive system of any animal on Earth. It can take sloths two weeks to digest an entire meal, and they sleep about 20 hours a day to conserve energy.

Sloth schedules are surprisingly flexible

By Laura Baisas

The weevil Anchylorhynchus trapezicollis is the main pollinator of South American palm Syagrus coronata. Here, the weevil is seen on a female flower, touching the receptive parts and leaving pollen grains in the process.

Move over, bees: The lowly weevil is a power pollinator

By Laura Baisas

A sign that reads "Protect Our Waters" outside of the US Supreme Court before a rally to call for protection of the Clean Water Act on October 3, 2022. As the term began, the court was hearing arguments in the case of Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency.

Wetlands lose some environmental protections in new Supreme Court ruling

By Laura Baisas

For the first time after more than a decade of work by researchers in France and Switzerland, a paralyzed man has regained the ability to walk naturally using only his thoughts thanks to two implants that restored communication between his brain and spinal cord. The press conference was held in Lausanne on May 23, 2023.

AI-assisted brain and spine implants helped a paralyzed man control his legs again

By Laura Baisas

The sun over the ocean. Over 5,000 species could be at risk if deep sea mining begins in the Pacific Ocean's Clarion-Clipperton Zone.

A deep sea mining zone in the remote Pacific is also a goldmine of unique species

By Laura Baisas

Visible satellite image of Super Typhoon Mawar on Tuesday, May 23, 2023. At the time, Mawar had sustained 1-minute winds of 155 mph.

Guam hit by strongest ‘Super Typhoon’ in decades

By Laura Baisas

Meningococcal bacteria under a microscope. According to the World Health Organization, meningitis caused an estimated 25,000 deaths in 2019.

Meningitis shot that fights 5 different strains shows promise in latest trial

By Laura Baisas

A spiny mouse standing on a rock. Spiny mice can regenerate skin, muscle, nerves, spinal cord, and possibly cardiac tissue.

African spiny mouse joins a small but mighty group of bony plated mammals

By Laura Baisas

Climate justice campaigners march from the Shell Centre to Trafalgar Square to demand urgent climate finance and reparations for loss and damage for global south communities on November, 12 2022 in London. The march was organized by the Climate Justice Coalition as part of a Global Day of Action called by African climate campaign groups at COP27.

Chevron’s carbon offsets are mostly ‘junk,’ according to global watchdog investigation

By Laura Baisas

A polar bear stands on sea ice.

The Montreal Protocol had a dramatic ice-saving side effect

By Laura Baisas

A group of yellow and fuzzy baby chicks.

How a sniff test could make sexing chicks more humane

By Laura Baisas

A bathtub ring seen above the waterline o the brown and red rocks around Lake Powell, Utah due to drought that reduced the flow of the Colorado River.

Colorado River deals pays Arizona, California, and Nevada $1.2 billion to use less water

By Laura Baisas

A detailed example of a light bridge crossing a sunspot’s umbra. Hot solar material (plasma) rises in the bright centers of these surrounding “cells,” cools off, and then sinks below the surface in dark lanes in a process known as convection.

See hot plasma bubble on the sun’s surface in powerful closeup images

By Laura Baisas

An artist’s illustration of the giant gorgonopsian Inostrancevia with its dicynodont prey, scaring off the much smaller African species Cyonosaurus.

This tiger-sized, saber-toothed, rhino-skinned predator thrived before the ‘Great Dying’

By Laura Baisas

The lower Manhattan skyline at dusk.

NYC is sinking and climate change is only making it worse

By Laura Baisas

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured this mosaic of an isolated hill nicknamed “Pinestand.” Scientists think sedimentary layers stacked on top of one another here could have been formed by a deep, fast-moving river

Mars rover snaps pics of dusty craters that may have once roared with water

By Laura Baisas

A newly hatched California condor.

Thriving baby California condor is a ray of hope for the unique species

By Laura Baisas

A rendering of the newly discovered Protathlitis cinctorrensis near coastal areas where it lived during the Cretaceous Period.

A giant new spinosaur species has been unearthed in Spain

By Laura Baisas

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

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