More from Laura Baisas (Page 23)

A young woman sits below a stairwell with her head down in sadness.

Teen girls and queer youth are facing a crisis of hopelessness, CDC finds

By Laura Baisas

Studying fighter pilot physiology could help us understand astronaut brains

Studying fighter pilot physiology could help us understand astronaut brains

By Laura Baisas

A woma pythron, a large, nocturnal species of snake on the ground by a piece of wood.

Snakes can actually hear really well

By Laura Baisas

A Marburg virus as it appears under a microscope.

Rare, Ebola-related Marburg virus spreads in Equatorial Guinea

By Laura Baisas

An artist’s impression of two theropod species discovered by scientists at the University of Southampton in 2021, Ceratosuchops inferodios and Riparovenator milnerae.

What was going on inside of this spinosaur’s brain?

By Laura Baisas

A Eurasian lynch perches in a fallen tree in a forest.

Endangered Species

The endangered Eurasian lynx might never recover fully in France

By Laura Baisas

An image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope of stars and galaxies surrounding spiral galaxy LEDA 2046648.

Space Telescope

JWST’s latest new galaxy discoveries mirror the Milky Way

By Laura Baisas

Lion's mane mushrooms on a table.

Lion’s mane mushroom shows promise in boosting brain cell growth

By Laura Baisas

Fossil hippo skeleton and associated Oldowan artifacts at the Nyayanga site in July 2016.

2.9 million-year-old tools found in Kenya stir up a ‘fascinating whodunnit’

By Laura Baisas

A scientist working at a microscope with a pipette.

A vaccine trial targeting the most lethal breast cancer just took its next step

By Laura Baisas

The planet Saturn on a dark background. Two smudgy spokes are seen in the B ring (left). The shape and shading of spokes can appear light or dark, depending on the viewing angle, and sometimes appear more like blobs than classic radial spoke shapes, as seen here.

Space Telescope

Hubble telescope spies Saturn’s rings in ‘spoke season’

By Laura Baisas

A small, young plant sprouts up from dark soil.

Smarter fertilizer use could shrink our agricultural carbon footprint

By Laura Baisas

A woman in a field observes a plant.

Citizen science is another great form of nature therapy

By Laura Baisas

Two giraffes on a sunny day with one looking directly at the viewer.

Why giraffe sex is a tall order and hinges on pee

By Laura Baisas

Two orca whales swim in the ocean with mountains in the distance.

Raising male offspring comes at a high price for orca mothers

By Laura Baisas

In the latest State of the Union, Biden highlights infrastructure, chips, and healthcare

In the latest State of the Union, Biden highlights infrastructure, chips, and healthcare

By Laura Baisas

Ruins of Linlithgow Castle, near Edinburgh, Scotland, the birthplace of Mary, Queen of Scots.

Codebreakers have finally deciphered the lost letters of Mary, Queen of Scots

By Laura Baisas

A beefsteak fungus growing in a forest.

Bacteria and fungi are the first to start rebuilding charred forests

By Laura Baisas

Two dialysis machine set-ups in a medical center.

Dialysis is riskier for Black and Latino patients, CDC says

By Laura Baisas

An uncooked brown crab sitting among among seaweed and water.

Neanderthals caught and cooked crabs 90,000 years ago

By Laura Baisas

Jupiter and its four planet-size moons, called the Galilean satellites, were first photographed in early March 1979 by Voyager 1 and assembled into this collage. They are not to scale but are in their relative positions.

Astronomers find 12 more moons orbiting Jupiter

By Laura Baisas

A wolf-like puppy surrounded by other puppies tries howling.

Do domesticated dogs howl back at wolves?

By Laura Baisas

This aerial view shows residents helped by bulldozers, searching for victims and survivors in the rubble of collapsed buildings, following an earthquake in the town of Sarmada in the countryside of the northwestern Syrian Idlib province, early on February 6, 2023.

Rescue underway after deadly earthquake hits Turkey and Syria

By Laura Baisas

A scan of a mastodon skeleton with an arrow pointing to the trajectory of the spear.

Ancient humans used mastodon bones to hunt the giant beasts

By Laura Baisas

A young woman applies eye drops.

The CDC warns EzriCare eyedrops may contain dangerous drug-resistant bacteria

By Laura Baisas

The city of Beijing, China shrouded in a hazy layer of air pollution.

China’s decision to reduce coal-powered heating may have saved 23,000 lives

By Laura Baisas

An emergency room at a hospital during the day,

The US’s healthcare system discourages people from getting care, new study says

By Laura Baisas

Three fishers fish for salmon in Alaska.

Biden’s recent climate decisions will close mines, protect salmon, and may permit drilling in Alaska

By Laura Baisas

A fossilized fish brain alongside of a penny for size comparison.

Scientists find 319-million-year-old fossilized fish brain

By Laura Baisas

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz holds up a piece of legislation, surrounded by supporters of the PRO Act.

Minnesota just became the first post-Roe state to make abortion a right

By Laura Baisas

Two translucent Golden-line Barbell fish, also known as Sinocyclocheilus hyalinus, swim in a tank at Taipei, Taiwan on June 2, 2005.

Unicorns do exist—as a cave fish in China

By Laura Baisas

Two giant, circular ground telescopes with an overlay of a starry night sky.

Cosmic cartographers release a more accurate map of the universe’s matter

By Laura Baisas

An emperor tamarin monkey sits in a tree.

Animals at the Dallas Zoo keep vanishing from their enclosures

By Laura Baisas

President Joe Biden gesturing and speaking at the Baltimore and Potomac (B&P) Tunnel North Portal on January 30, 2023 in Baltimore, Maryland.

Biden will end COVID-19 national emergencies in May. Here’s what that means.

By Laura Baisas

A northern pygmy owl with brown and white feathers perched on a tree branch and staring.

Songbird species team up to ‘mob’ owls and other predators

By Laura Baisas

A dolphin breaching near a fisherman standing in the water in Laguna, Brazil.

When humans and dolphins fish together, they both win

By Laura Baisas

A pink wave curs in the Pacific Ocean.

Gnarly pink waves crash near San Diego

By Laura Baisas

A green tailed comet streaks across the night sky.

Here’s what to look for in the night sky this February

By Laura Baisas

A male barista pours milk into coffee.

Taking milk with your coffee could be good for your health

By Laura Baisas

Two small prairie voles.

These fuzzy burrowers don’t need oxytocin to fall in love

By Laura Baisas

A doctor in a surgical mask holding a vial of Pfizer/BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine.

The FDA says get used to COVID-19 vaccine boosters

By Laura Baisas

Am ancient Egyptian statue of a person with short hair from a recently discovered burial site.

A gold-laced mummy could be the ‘oldest and most complete’ specimen found in Egypt

By Laura Baisas

A seaweed farm underwater near an island in Indonesia.

Why seaweed farming could be the next big thing in sustainability

By Laura Baisas

An aerial view of Chasm-1, a crack in Antarctica's Brunt Ice Sheet.

A chunk of ice twice the size of New York City broke off the Brunt Ice Shelf

By Laura Baisas

Artist's reconstruction of Ignacius dawsonae surviving six months of winter darkness in the extinct warm temperate ecosystem of Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada.

These primate ancestors were totally chill with a colder climate

By Laura Baisas

Two long, dark, Koh Tao worm salamanders on a swampy soil

One wormy Triassic fossil could fill a hole in the evolutionary story of amphibians

By Laura Baisas

Persisting winter storm conditions bring snow, tornadoes, and thunder to Eastern US

Persisting winter storm conditions bring snow, tornadoes, and thunder to Eastern US

By Laura Baisas

A natural gas pipeline.

An oil spill on this fuel-rich coast could be a supply chain catastrophe

By Laura Baisas

The Earth’s inner core could be slowing its spin—but don’t panic

The Earth’s inner core could be slowing its spin—but don’t panic

By Laura Baisas

A mummy's coffin on a dark background.

This teen mummy was buried with dozens of gold amulets

By Laura Baisas

A man holds a brightly colored pill with a glass of water.

Common antidepressants may blunt both pain and enjoyment

By Laura Baisas

A chimpanzee holding out its hand.

Adolescent chimpanzees might be less impulsive than human teens

By Laura Baisas

A glacier in Antarctica with water under it.

Meteorite hunters lug a 16.7-pound space rock from Antarctic ice

By Laura Baisas

A starry night sky over a populated area with lights.

‘Skyglow’ is rapidly diminishing our nightly views of the stars

By Laura Baisas

A juvenile North American red squirrel in a tree in the Yukon, Canada

Squirrels gamble, too—but with their genes

By Laura Baisas

A group of oyster mushrooms growing.

Oyster mushrooms release nerve gas to kill worms before eviscerating them

By Laura Baisas

Newly found titanosaur eggs reveal dino nurseries once teemed with baby giants

Newly found titanosaur eggs reveal dino nurseries once teemed with baby giants

By Laura Baisas

A vaccine pharmacist prepares blind samples as part of an HIV vaccine trial on March 16, 2022 in Masaka, Uganda.

Another HIV vaccine candidate fails in clinical trial

By Laura Baisas

An overview of mummified crocodiles during an excavation.

Ancient Egyptians had a unique way of mummifying crocodiles

By Laura Baisas

A solar flare with light and particles being released from the sun.

Small ‘sparks’ on the sun could be key to forecasting dramatic solar weather

By Laura Baisas

A woman with a bandage after receiving a vaccine.

Late-stage trials show efficacy of Moderna’s RSV vaccine in older adults

By Laura Baisas

Adult zebra shark swims in a tank at Shedd Aquarium in Chicago

A virgin birth in Shedd Aquarium’s shark tank is baffling biologists

By Laura Baisas

Five fossil specimens including extinct trilobites.

Trilobites may have jousted with head ‘tridents’ to win mates

By Laura Baisas

A doctor using a stethoscope to listen to a pregnant person's stomach.

Pregnant people with COVID-19 are 7 times more likely to die in childbirth

By Laura Baisas

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