More from Laura Baisas (Page 23)

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

Grilled bass on a bed of vegetables.

Freshwater fish are loaded with ‘forever chemicals’

By Laura Baisas

A toddler offering a husky puppy a treat.

Toddlers may be wired to help their dog friends

By Laura Baisas

Despite fiery debate, Biden isn’t banning gas stoves in the US

Despite fiery debate, Biden isn’t banning gas stoves in the US

By Laura Baisas

A woman walking into the sunset

You should take a 5-minute walk for every 30 minutes of sitting

By Laura Baisas

WHO announces that Uganda’s months-long Ebola outbreak is over

WHO announces that Uganda’s months-long Ebola outbreak is over

By Laura Baisas

Exoplanet LHS 475 b and its star detected by the James Webb Space Telescope in an artist's rendition

The James Webb Space Telescope just identified its first exoplanet

By Laura Baisas

Industrial pollution from smoke stacks.

Renewable energy is climbing in the US, but so are our emissions—here’s why

By Laura Baisas

A big-eyed Brown Mouse Lemur from Madagascar.

Endangered Species

If Madagascar’s animals disappear, it’ll take 23 million years to get them back

By Laura Baisas

Blazing sun over the ocean.

Earth’s oceans are getting hotter and saltier than ever before in human history

By Laura Baisas

NASA Satellite images of a hole in the ozone layer in 2019.

Earth’s ozone layer should fully recover over the next 40 years

By Laura Baisas

Rain, storms, and mudslides batter California

Rain, storms, and mudslides batter California

By Laura Baisas

White salt on a brown cutting board.

Reducing sodium in packaged foods could reduce disease and save lives

By Laura Baisas

A small lizard called the Puerto Rican crested anole sits on a human-made fence.

When these reptiles became city lizards, it changed their genes

By Laura Baisas

Protesters hold signs in front of University College London Hospital, Euston Road in solidarity with the nurses strike and the NHS on December 20, 2022.

New York City nurses go on strike due to low pay and understaffing

By Laura Baisas

A drawing dating back to the Ice Age on a cave with markings circled.

Cave drawings from 20,000 years ago may feature an early form of writing

By Laura Baisas

Blue flames from multiple burners on a gas stove.

Gas stoves could be making thousands of children in America sick

By Laura Baisas

A still from a 3D model of the 16th-century ship found at Dungeness quarry

A ship from the 16th century was just dredged up in England

By Laura Baisas

The Jewel Damselfish on off of a rat-free island.

Invasive rats are making some reef fish more peaceful, and that’s bad, actually

By Laura Baisas

A pig looking up from a muddy field.

A new synthetic material could help fix broken penises—at least in pigs

By Laura Baisas

A lush green fjord in Norway with a wooden longship.

Some modern-day Scandinavians lack the ancestral diversity of Vikings

By Laura Baisas

A flooded roadway in San Carolos, California

Strong storms and strange weather patterns sweep the US

By Laura Baisas

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28