More from Laura Baisas (Page 3)

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

The acoustic parasitoid fly Ormia ochracea and its host cricket.
Insects

This parasitic fly gives birth inside of crickets

By Laura Baisas

a black cat sits in leaves
Biology

Pet cat helps discover a new virus

By Laura Baisas

several small fish with colorful organa and blue scales
Fish

Orange male guppies are hornier

By Laura Baisas

a yellow crab on a beach
Endangered Species

Australia’s ghost crabs decapitate baby sea turtles

By Laura Baisas

These images, showing ejecta around the impacted near-Earth asteroids, were taken during the approach (with Didymos to the upper left) and departure (Didymos to the upper right) of DART's companion spacecraft, LICIACube, which flew past a few minutes after the impact and imaged the aftermath. The ejecta field consists of an asymmetric cone of dust that exhibits streamers and filaments, as well as over a hundred meter-sized boulders that were ejected in preferred directions.
NASA

Crashing into an asteroid creates chaotic space boulders

By Laura Baisas

A pseudoscorpion from the genus Nipponogarypus in South Korea.
Wildlife

New pseudoscorpions with dragon-like jaws discovered in a South Korea cave

By Laura Baisas

Steven Spielberg, director of ‘Jaws,’ films the mechanical shark on set.
Sharks

50 years of the ‘Jaws effect’

By Laura Baisas

An artist’s reconstruction of the fossilized landscape, plants, and animals found preserved in a remote bonebed in Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. The newly described pterosaur Eotephradactylus mcintireae is seen eating an ancient ray-finned fish alongside an early species of turtle and an early frog species, with the skeleton of an armored crocodile relative lying on the ground and a palm-like plant growing in the background.
Evolution

North American pterosaur could sit on your shoulder

By Laura Baisas

A close up of a mosquito biting human skin
Insects

A mosquito killer may lurk in a Mediterranean bacteria

By Laura Baisas

a yellowtail parrotfish swims by a coral reef
Ocean

Real Coral Reefs of Miami: A Q&A with the marine biologist behind a popular livestream

By Laura Baisas

a close up of a hermit crab, with brown coloring and dark eyes
Wildlife

What makes a hermit crab more bold? Hairy claws.

By Laura Baisas

the ruins of the ancient city of babylon, consisting of brown walls and buildings
Archaeology

Babylonian text missing for 1,000 years deciphered with AI

By Laura Baisas

This image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows the supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5. These are the expanding remains of a star that exploded hundreds of years ago in a double-detonation – the first photographic evidence that stars can die with two blasts. The data were captured with the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument at the VLT. MUSE allows astronomers to map the distribution of different chemical elements, displayed here in different colours. Calcium is shown in blue, and it is arranged in two concentric shells. These two layers indicate that the now-dead star exploded with a double-detonation.
Solar System

Massive ‘double detonation’ spotted by astronomers for the first time

By Laura Baisas

Eryops megacephalus’ (left) skull alongside Rex from the film “Toy Story” (right).
Biology

Skull that looks like a ‘Toy Story’ character unearthed in Texas

By Laura Baisas

two sea turtles released into the ocean wearing transponders
Ocean

17 rehabilitated sea turtles released off Cape Cod

By Laura Baisas

an illustration showing several dinosaur species walking in a line
Dinosaurs

A dinosaur ‘tombstone’ lurks underneath New Jersey

By Laura Baisas

gray rocks under a blue sky
Science

Earth’s oldest rocks date back 4.16 billion years

By Laura Baisas

eight chipmunk specimens with tags on them in a museum collection
Evolution

City living is changing rodent skulls in Chicago

By Laura Baisas

a team of five scientsts paddle a dugout canoe that is a replica of one used 30,000 years ago
Archaeology

Ancient canoe replica recreates a 30,000-year-old voyage

By Laura Baisas