More from Laura Baisas (Page 21)

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

Some coastal critters are thriving in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

By Laura Baisas

Two carpet beetles on a white flower.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Delaying departure may help birds migrate around climate change

By Laura Baisas

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Hotter weather could be changing baseball

By Laura Baisas

Icebergs over the ocean in Greenland.

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.

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

By 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.

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.

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.

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

By Laura Baisas

An adult elephant walks with two juvenile elephants.

Scientists may have figured out why elephants exhibit complex emotions

By Laura Baisas

A capuchin monkey in a tree looking at the camera.

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.

Nearly 18 percent of the global population struggles with infertility

By Laura Baisas

An ostrich inspects eggs in a nest.

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.

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.

Tornado outbreak killed dozens of people across the US this weekend

By Laura Baisas

A blue UV image of the planet Saturn.

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.

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.

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.

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

By Laura Baisas

A baby kisses a small dog

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.

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.

FDA approves first over-the-counter opioid overdose treatment

By Laura Baisas

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

By Laura Baisas

Two surgeons operating in an operating room.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Recovery begins after devastating tornadoes hit Mississippi’s Lower Delta

By Laura Baisas

Two members of a medical team work on a diagnosis.

Weight might not be the best way to detect diabetes early

By Laura Baisas

An asteroid comes apart in the night sky.

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

By Laura Baisas

Desert daisy tricks male flies with sexy evolutionary deception

Desert daisy tricks male flies with sexy evolutionary deception

By Laura Baisas

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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,

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.

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

By Laura Baisas

The sun shining on glaciers.

‘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.

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

By Laura Baisas

Rain falling on a window and green plants.

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.

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,

This new species of pink orchid looks like delicate glasswork

By Laura Baisas

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

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.

The Notre Dame fire revealed a long-lost architectural marvel

By Laura Baisas

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