More from Laura Baisas (Page 26)

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

Several European spruce bark beetles on a dry piece of wood.
Land

These beetles sniff out fungus-infected trees to find their next target

By Laura Baisas

A 6.3 inch long phallus shaped artifact that was discovered in England, at the Roman fort of Vindolanda.
Archaeology

Scientists think they found a 2,000-year-old dildo in ancient Roman ruins

By Laura Baisas

A business woman packs up paperwork and a laptop in an office.
Mental Health

4-day work week shows big benefits for both workers and employers in UK

By Laura Baisas

A tractor in Argentina drives over a dry and dusty soybean field with a blazing sun.
Global Warming

La Niña is exacerbating drought conditions for millions

By Laura Baisas

Norovirus under a microscope. The virus is a gastrointestinal illness that causes vomiting, diarrhea, and is highly contagious.
Diseases

Norovirus is spiking across the United States

By Laura Baisas

An adult humpback whale surfaces above the water in eastern Australia.
Ocean

A group of humpback whales is choosing violence

By Laura Baisas

Syringes with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine on a table with bandaids and a fan.
Vaccines

Moderna says it will keep its COVID-19 vaccine free (for now)

By Laura Baisas

The bow of the RMS Titanic, almost 12,500 feet under the ocean.
Science

Watch never-before-seen footage of the Titanic shipwreck from the 1980s

By Laura Baisas

A European hedgehog on a road with a yellow flower.
Endangered Species

Why Danish citizen scientists were on a quest to find the oldest European hedgehog

By Laura Baisas

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

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
Health

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.
Wildlife

Snakes can actually hear really well

By Laura Baisas

A Marburg virus as it appears under a microscope.
Diseases

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.
Evolution

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.
Biology

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.
Archaeology

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.
Vaccines

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