More from Laura Baisas (Page 22)

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

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.
Evolution

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

By Laura Baisas

A baby kisses a small dog
Cats

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.
Wildlife

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.
Medicine

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.
Vaccines

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.
Birds

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.
Wildlife

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.
Land

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.
Weather

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.
Solar System

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

By Laura Baisas

Desert daisy tricks male flies with sexy evolutionary deception
Insects

Desert daisy tricks male flies with sexy evolutionary deception

By Laura Baisas

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

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.
Exoplanets

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.
Land

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.
Pollution

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,
Wildlife

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.
Global Warming

‘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.
Mental Health

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

By Laura Baisas

Rain falling on a window and green plants.
Weather

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.
Weather

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,
Land

This new species of pink orchid looks like delicate glasswork

By Laura Baisas

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

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.
Dogs

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

By Laura Baisas

A mosquito biting a human arm.
Insects

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.
Spiders

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

By Laura Baisas

A warm of bees on a honeycomb.
Bees

Older bees teach younger bees the ‘waggle dance’

By Laura Baisas

Whitespotted eagle ray swimming in the ocean.
Ocean

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

By Laura Baisas

A group of mice eats a scone.
Biology

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.
Biology

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.
Pollution

Almost everyone in the world breathes unhealthy air

By Laura Baisas

A printout cholesterol screening results.
Heart Disease

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.
Bees

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

By Laura Baisas

A pod of dolphins swimming together in blue water.
Ocean

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.”
Mental Health

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.
Mental 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.
Whales

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.
Insects

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.
Archaeology

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.
Birds

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.
Birds

This hybrid hummingbird’s colorful feathers are a genetic puzzle

By Laura Baisas

A glassy-winged sharpshooter rests on a leaf.
Insects

Watch these tiny bugs catapult urine with their butts

By Laura Baisas

Sugar on a wooden spoon.
Diseases

Popular artificial sweetener associated with risk of heart attack and stroke

By Laura Baisas

Venus (left), the waning crescent Moon, and Jupiter (right), appear together in the skies above Salt Lake City, Utah on January 31, 2019.
Solar System

March skies will bring a lunar illusion and planetary reunion

By Laura Baisas

A moniker fairy lantern plant detonates, with its petals unfurling.
Land

Scientists just rediscovered a rare, fungi-eating ‘fairy lantern’

By Laura Baisas

An at-home COVID-19 and flu test box.
COVID-19

An at-home test for both COVID-19 and the flu gains approval

By Laura Baisas

A scientist holds up a tooth recovered from an archaeological dig in Denmark.
Diseases

Scientists tracked the plague’s journey through Denmark using really old teeth

By Laura Baisas

A commercial airplane at taxxing at an airport in soft sunlight.
COVID-19

Airplane toilets are a surprisingly good place to track COVID outbreaks

By Laura Baisas

An illustration of Hyneria udlezinye, a large, predatory fish, with smaller fish in the Waterloo Farm ecosystem in South Africa about 360 million years ago.
Fish

A gator-faced fish shaped like a torpedo stalked rivers 360 million years ago

By Laura Baisas

Three rows of various plant-based milks in a grocery store refrigerator.
Agriculture

The FDA says it’s ok to call almond milk ‘milk’ (for now)

By Laura Baisas

Recreations of tiny points found in Grotte Mandrin that were reproduced using the same flint and replicating the same technologies from thousands of years ago. These experimental points were then used as arrowheads and shot by bow to analyze the categories of fractures appearing on these arrowheads and compare them with the scars found on the archeological material.
Archaeology

Archery may have helped humans gain leverage over Neanderthals

By Laura Baisas

Singer Mariah Carey performs on stage with her twins Moroccan Cannon and Monroe Cannon during her "Merry Christmas To All!" at Madison Square Garden on December 13, 2022 in New York City.
Psychology

This is your brain on Christmas music

By Laura Baisas

Six faint circular object glow in space. These are images of six candidate massive galaxies, seen 500-800 million years after the Big Bang.
Space Telescope

These 6 galaxies are so huge, they’ve been nicknamed ‘universe breakers’

By Laura Baisas