More from Laura Baisas (Page 24)

A cutting board with a variety of ingredients for cooking a healthy meal.

Experts rank the raw food diet as the worst of 2023

By Laura Baisas

Yellow chlorovirus particles infecting microscopic green algae

These microbes could be the first lifeforms to munch on infectious viruses

By Laura Baisas

An orange box of mifepristone (Mifeprex) and a white container of Misoprostol, the two drugs used in a medication abortion, are seen at the Women's Reproductive Clinic, which provides legal medication abortion services, in Santa Teresa, New Mexico.

FDA takes big step to make abortion pills as accessible as other prescription drugs

By Laura Baisas

A scientist testing samples in a lab.

The new Omicron subvariant XXB.1.5 may the next big COVID strain

By Laura Baisas

A crowded airport ticket line

China is facing a COVID-19 surge—and that could mean complications for travel

By Laura Baisas

A woman drinking water after a work out.

Hydration seems to be the key to aging better and living longer

By Laura Baisas

Kick off 2023 with unique moonscapes, a meteor shower, and a bright comet

Kick off 2023 with unique moonscapes, a meteor shower, and a bright comet

By Laura Baisas

Satellite image of Hurricane Ian in the Gulf of Mexico

The 2022 Atlantic hurricane season started slowly, but still produced devastating storms

By Laura Baisas

A pink iguana in green grass at Galápagos National Park in Ecuador.

Pink Iguana hatchlings spotted for the first time on the Galápagos in decades

By Laura Baisas

Extreme cold is blasting half the US this weekend

Extreme cold is blasting half the US this weekend

By Laura Baisas

Sugar cookies baked with quinoa flour on a cookie sheet in a kitchen.

A new kind of quinoa flour may be coming to a sugar cookie near you

By Laura Baisas

A titanium tube placed on Mars by NASA's Perseverance rover

Perseverance rover makes its first package delivery: a unique kind of Mars rock

By Laura Baisas

Zebrafish swimming in an aquarium.

A primitive part of the zebrafish brain helps them find their way home

By Laura Baisas

Clay pots in a modern day pottery studio.

Ancient social networks spread pottery trends across the world

By Laura Baisas

A bright blue and green dragonfly.

Time passes faster for smaller, quicker animals

By Laura Baisas

A sleeping baby with an adult holding a thermometer.

Demand for children’s medications during ‘tripledemic’ forces pharmacies to limit purchases

By Laura Baisas

Firey lava flows from the Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii.

Radar-informed hazard maps could help protect people from lava flows

By Laura Baisas

Ferndale California downtown before a 6.4-magnitude earthquake

Large earthquake knocks out power for thousands in Northern California

By Laura Baisas

A young orangutan in a tree.

Why do humans talk? Tree-dwelling orangutans might hold the answer.

By Laura Baisas

An illustration of NASA's InSight spacecraft with its instruments deployed on the Martian surface.

InSight says goodbye with what may be its last wistful image of Mars

By Laura Baisas

An illustration of adult and young of the ichthyosaur species (Shonisaurus popularis) chasing ammonoid prey 230 million years ago, in what is now Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in Nevada.

Millions of years ago, marine reptiles may have used Nevada as a birthing ground

By Laura Baisas

A yellow and black wasp lands on a green leaf.

Male wasps use their genital spines to sting frogs (and people)

By Laura Baisas

World governments strike historic deal to protect planet’s biodiversity

World governments strike historic deal to protect planet’s biodiversity

By Laura Baisas

Two sauropods in the sunset.

A warming planet may have set the stage for dinosaurs to rule the Earth

By Laura Baisas

A sprinkler watering a lawn.

The nation’s largest water supplier declares a ‘drought emergency’ ahead of 2023

By Laura Baisas

Clams in their woody home.

These clams use poop to dominate their habitat

By Laura Baisas

Ebola vaccines in African countries successfully produced antibodies in kids and adults

Ebola vaccines in African countries successfully produced antibodies in kids and adults

By Laura Baisas

Thousands of galaxies over an enormous range in distance and time are seen in exquisite detail, many for the first time

Space Telescope

JWST’s new image unveils a field of glittery galaxies

By Laura Baisas

A page from an 18th Century copy of Dhātupāṭha of Pāṇini from the Cambridge University Library.

This ancient language puzzle was impossible to solve—until a PhD student cracked the code

By Laura Baisas

Scientists just found out female snakes have two clitorises

Scientists just found out female snakes have two clitorises

By Laura Baisas

A map of a massive storm system moving across the United States. December 13, 2022.

Stormy weather brings tornadoes and blizzards across the US

By Laura Baisas

A reconstructed image of Ramsayia, alongside a modern day wombat.

Giant wombats the size of small cars once roamed Australia

By Laura Baisas

A towering dust devil casts a serpentine shadow over the Martian surface in this image acquired by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (April 2012).

For the first time, humans can hear a dust devil roar across Mars

By Laura Baisas

Colorful produce at a grocery store.

Why US vegetable prices have skyrocketed in the past year

By Laura Baisas

Large fossilized fragments of free swimming arthropods

Newly discovered fossils give a whole new meaning to jumbo shrimp

By Laura Baisas

Rising sun viewed from the stone causeway of the solar observatory on Mount Tlaloc, Mexico.

The Aztecs’ solar calendar helped grow food for millions of people

By Laura Baisas

The world’s largest active volcano simmers down after eruption

The world’s largest active volcano simmers down after eruption

By Laura Baisas

A thermometer showing temperatures below zero.

Heart disease-related deaths rise in extreme heat and extreme cold

By Laura Baisas

NASA Orion space vehicle on Navy ship with parachutes deployed

Welcome back to Earth, Orion!

By Laura Baisas, Sara Kiley Watson

An image of the Southern Ring Nebula (NGC 3132), captured by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI).

Space Telescope

James Webb Space Telescope reconstructed a ‘star party,’ and you’re invited

By Laura Baisas

A Labrador and a terrier play with a rope toy.

How breeding dogs for certain traits may have altered their brains

By Laura Baisas

Rice plants growing

People in China have been harvesting rice for more than 10,000 years

By Laura Baisas

A syringe and vial of a COVID-19 vaccine.

Bivalent COVID-19 vaccines now available for children under 5 in the US

By Laura Baisas

A team from the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum examines a shipwreck unearthed by hurricanes in Florida.

Storm erosion brings 200-year-old shipwreck to the surface of a Florida beach

By Laura Baisas

Two dogs nipping at each other

Humans have trouble anticipating aggressive behavior in man’s best friend

By Laura Baisas

Feisty ankylosaurs clubbed each other with their tails

Feisty ankylosaurs clubbed each other with their tails

By Laura Baisas

The last Tasmanian tiger’s remains were finally found—in a cupboard

The last Tasmanian tiger’s remains were finally found—in a cupboard

By Laura Baisas

Brightly colored tropical fish in a coral reef

To save coral reefs, color the larvae

By Laura Baisas

A man wearing a jacket sneezes into a rissue.

Cold temperatures could make our respiratory systems more vulnerable to infection

By Laura Baisas

A protective white face mask/

This flu season is bound to be historic, but masks can help, says the CDC

By Laura Baisas

The tortoise, the myth, the legend: Jonathan turns 190

The tortoise, the myth, the legend: Jonathan turns 190

By Laura Baisas

This dinosaur dove like a duck

This dinosaur dove like a duck

By Laura Baisas

For thousands of years, kids have been fascinated with owls

For thousands of years, kids have been fascinated with owls

By Laura Baisas

Artist’s impression of Cryptovaranoides when it was alive

A key to lizard evolution was buried in a museum cupboard for 70 years

By Laura Baisas

The FDA building in Washington DC

The FDA approved a fecal transplant treatment for the first time

By Laura Baisas

The view of a colorful lake and steam from Yellowstone's Grand Prismatic Overlook Trail.

There’s more magma under Yellowstone than we thought—but don’t panic

By Laura Baisas

A series of brain scans

Some teenagers’ brains have been aging faster during the pandemic

By Laura Baisas

A full moon rises over snowy hills.

Fireballs, bright Mars, and a big moon will dazzle in December’s night sky

By Laura Baisas

HIV/AIDS activists in India holding up "no discrimination" signs and red AIDS ribbons

Dr. Fauci on fighting stigmas on infectious diseases, from AIDS to COVID

By Laura Baisas

A child receives a COVID-19 vaccine

COVID-19 vaccines are still essential in preventing death in children and teens

By Laura Baisas

Daubenton's bat is similar to metal singers

What bats and metal vocalists have in common

By Laura Baisas

The newest member of the T. rex family has piercing eyes

The newest member of the T. rex family has piercing eyes

By Laura Baisas

Steller's Sea Cow

Meet the extinct sea cow that cultivated Pacific kelp forests

By Laura Baisas

Mauna Loa lava flow

The world’s largest active volcano is erupting in Hawaii

By Laura Baisas

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