More from Laura Baisas (Page 3)

a bat hanging upside down on a tree
Science

The 2025 Ig Nobel Prizes honor garlicky babies, drunk bats, and more

By Laura Baisas

a black and white dog surrounded by dog toys
Dogs

Dogs can learn and remember how toys work

By Laura Baisas

a map showing where birds are migrating
Birds

262 million birds forecast to take to the skies tonight

By Laura Baisas

a vet examining a seagull wrapped in a towel with a fishing bobber stuck in its mouth
Birds

Seagull survives swallowing a giant fish hook–thanks to local vets

By Laura Baisas

five old fashioned alarm clocks in a rowCREDIT: Catherine McQueen via Getty Images
Health

Ending daylight saving time could be better for our health

By Laura Baisas

a wheel of a shipwreck under water
Archaeology

Wisconsin ‘ghost ship’ uncovered after 139 years

By Laura Baisas

a scalloped hammerhead shark swimming in the pacific
Endangered Species

Endangered shark meat keeps ending up on store shelves

By Laura Baisas

a gold dollar coin. the heads side has a woman holding a baby on her back named sacagewea on it and the back an eagle with 17 stars
NASA

Space-flown Sacagawea dollar coins fetch over $500K at auction

By Laura Baisas

a rectangular cassette tape with lots of loose brown tape coming out
Engineering

A single DNA cassette tape could store billions of photos

By Laura Baisas

Matador bug and a leaf-footed bug with impressive, large, colorful flags on its hind tibia.
Insects

This bug uses ‘red flags’ to tell predators to buzz off

By Laura Baisas

A mating pair of octopuses with one of the animals raising its arm up
Wildlife

Octopus arms are the animal kingdom’s most flexible

By Laura Baisas

a border collie in a park gives a human a high five with its paw
Dogs

Pandemic life left its mark on dogs

By Laura Baisas

An artist’s impression of how the aurora might appear in the sky above the Perseverance rover.
Mars

Aurora over Mars gives Red Planet a green glow

By Laura Baisas

a baby koala in a tree
Endangered Species

First koala chlamydia vaccine approved

By Laura Baisas

a mock up of a boarding pass for a flight during artemis 2
Moons

NASA’s next trip around the moon could have your name on it

By Laura Baisas

a backyard version of fenway park complete with a green monster, signs, and scoreboard
Projects

A dedicated son brings Fenway Park to his dad’s backyard

By Laura Baisas

a turtle hatchling on a large pile of brown seaweed
Wildlife

Sea turtle hatchlings struggle through a smelly seaweed maze

By Laura Baisas

a large, flat head catfish with an open mouth
Fish

Monster catfish and its creepy smile invade PA rivers

By Laura Baisas

a fish with bright blue markings swim in a tank
Ocean

A rainbow of fish dazzles in New Jersey

By Laura Baisas

a squirrel holding an acorn while it sits on a logCREDIT: Sandra Standbridge via Getty Images
Wildlife

Rodents’ secret weapon? Thumbnails.

By Laura Baisas

lava spreading out
Science

How a fracturing supercontinent forged rare volcanic rocks

By Laura Baisas

An electrical storm off the coast of Byron Bay, Australia. The changing sky dazzles with a natural light show of lightning bolts and billowing clouds dance in the sky for hours.
Climate Change

How lightning passes gas

By Laura Baisas

six glowing succulents in shades of blue, yellow, red, green, and a mixture of all
Biology

Glow-in-the-dark succulents are here

By Laura Baisas

a curled yellow deep sea worm
Wildlife

Deep sea worm wears Rembrandt’s favorite toxic color

By Laura Baisas

a blue lobster
Wildlife

A super rare, blue lobster escapes the dinner plate

By Laura Baisas

a solar flare as seen with a solar telescope. yellow streaks represent energy hurled away from the sun
Sun

Solar flares as you’ve never seen them before

By Laura Baisas

an aerial view of a humpback whale spinning in a circle with nets made out of bubbles
Ocean

Humpbacks are the only whales that can feed with bubble nets

By Laura Baisas

a close-up of a green eye with gold around the black pupil
Medicine

LASIK without the laser? Rabbit eyeballs hint at a new option

By Laura Baisas

a scallop with a dent in its top that makes it look like a heart
Ocean

A heart-shaped scallop turned up off the Massachusetts coast

By Laura Baisas

a large rock looking object called a fatberg on display in a museum. it is a big blob of fat, oil, and grease that clogged sewers
Engineering

Stopping fatbergs before they cost millions to remove

By Laura Baisas

Cooked shrimp on plate with fork and cilantro
Wildlife

Walmart’s ‘radioactive shrimp’ recall isn’t a reason to fear irradiated food

By Andrew Paul, Laura Baisas

close up of a spectral bat. it has large ears, small teeth, and a pointy nose
Bats

World’s largest carnivorous bats are big softies

By Laura Baisas

a person wearing gloves holds a large gelatinous greenish blob
Wildlife

‘Cursed gummybear’ spotted in Lake Huron

By Laura Baisas

a dire wolf skull. it has large front teeth
Archaeology

Dire wolf skull could fetch over $30,000 at auction

By Laura Baisas

a lake trout looking up from the water
Fish

Meet Mary Catherine, the Great Lakes’ oldest-known trout

By Laura Baisas

a rattlesnake with brown and white scales is coiled on the ground of a forest
Land

Michigan’s only rattlesnake is inbreeding

By Laura Baisas

a brown mouse standingCREDIT: Manuel Haderer/500 px via Getty Images on ice
International Space Station

Earth welcomes baby mice from space

By Laura Baisas

a river otter with brown fur sits in water with a waterfall behind it
Wildlife

Otter poop reveals they may be ecosystem engineers

By Laura Baisas

a a small bird with brown and white feather and a long skinny beak sits on a tree
Birds

Scientists find male bird that laid an egg

By Laura Baisas

a swirling orange cosmic get with yellow at the center
Black Holes

‘Eye of Sauron’ spotted in deep space

By Laura Baisas

a dolphin rides on the bow wave in front of a humpback whale
Whales

Dolphin follows a whale all the way to the seafloor

By Laura Baisas

a black and white photo of three scientists holding three sled dogs dogs
Archaeology

Body of scientist lost in 1959 found in Antarctica

By Laura Baisas

8 ancient silver coins
Archaeology

Ancient ‘rising sun’ coins reveal far-reaching trade network

By Laura Baisas

a woman holds a neck ring under a light
Archaeology

Famous Viking treasure contains silver from over 3,000 miles away

By Laura Baisas

sheep bones in a dig site
Diseases

Ancient animal bones unlock clues about Bronze Age plague

By Laura Baisas

a stream of lightning touches the ground with sunlight in the background
Weather

Lightning can kill you even if it’s sunny

By Laura Baisas

archaeolgists digging in a cave in spain
Archaeology

‘Wartime cannibalism’ unearthed in prehistoric Spanish cave

By Laura Baisas

two french bulldogs with black fur and white bellies
Dogs

Your Frenchie’s squishy face might shape their personality

By Laura Baisas

a small, yellow snail with dark eyes
Evolution

Apple snails can regrow their eyeballs

By Laura Baisas

waves crash by a giant lighthouse
Physics

Enormous rogue waves don’t come out of nowhere

By Laura Baisas

a brown, white, and black guinea pig sits in a cage
Pets

Zoo calls for small pet donations to feed its carnivores

By Laura Baisas

a 3D graphic of a pink brain with multicolored, square confetti being tossed at it
Psychology

How your brain can tell squishy ‘stuff’ from hard ‘things’

By Laura Baisas

Long, horizontal streaks of spider lightning below the base of a storm cloud in the Arizona desert in 2008.
Weather

A record-breaking lightning bolt just ‘shocked’ meteorologists

By Laura Baisas

red tomatoes on a vine next to some yellow potatoes and peaches
Agriculture

How the tomato created the potato

By Laura Baisas

a scientist holds a large, reddish-purple sea star with 24 legs
Ocean

Meet the 24-armed sea star, a kelp forest’s bodyguard

By Laura Baisas

a orange substance sits at the bottom of a plastic cup
Archaeology

Scientists think this orange goo is 2,500-year-old honey

By Laura Baisas

a painting showing the lava flows of mount vesuvius
Science

Engineers bring a 250-year-old mechanical painting of Mount Vesuvius to fiery life

By Laura Baisas

several fireflies blinking at once in a forest
Land

Why fireflies are everywhere this summer

By Laura Baisas

a penguin looks directly at the camera. it has black and white feathers with some red around the eyes
Ocean

The clever way Magellanic penguins ride—and adjust to—ocean currents

By Laura Baisas

A grey tabby cat with green eyes is lying on its side atop two concrete blocks. The cat has its head tilted and one paw raised near its face, appearing relaxed and content. In the background, there is green grass and plants slightly out of focus.
Ask Us Anything

Why do cats love concrete slabs? A vet explains.

By Laura Baisas

a red meterorite from mars
Mars

Largest chunk of Mars on Earth sells for $5.3 million

By Laura Baisas

This is HOPS-315, a baby star where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation. These observations show that hot minerals are beginning to solidify. In orange we see the distribution of carbon monoxide, blowing away from the star in a butterfly-shaped wind. In blue we see a narrow jet of silicon monoxide, also beaming away from the star. These gaseous winds and jets are common around baby stars like HOPS-315.
Space Telescope

For the first time, astronomers spot the beginning of a solar system

By Laura Baisas

a person holds a turtle with piercing eyes
Endangered Species

World’s largest known turtle nesting site found in the Amazon

By Laura Baisas

a drawing of ancient horse butchery
Archaeology

Medieval Hungarians kept eating horse meat, despite Christianity’s influence

By Laura Baisas