More from Laura Baisas (Page 5)

a woman drinks water with the sun beating down

What is dew point? A meteorologist explains that sticky air.

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a long marine reptile with large teeth eating a shelled animal

‘Very odd’ 40-foot-long marine reptile stalked prehistoric Canada

By Laura Baisas

an illustration showing the various sizes of extinct giant sloths

8,000-pound sloths once roamed North America. Where’d they go?

By Laura Baisas

Adélie penguins walking along the Antarctic coastline.

How pungent poop could help Antarctica’s penguins

By Laura Baisas

a smiley face made of white sunscreen on a hand

Do I really need to wear sunscreen every day? We asked dermatologists.

By Laura Baisas

a dog with wide eyes and ears perked up is kissed by two humans

Dogs can fulfill our need to nurture

By Laura Baisas

a pink and yellow flower with delicate petals

Plants can hear tiny wing flaps of pollinators

By Laura Baisas

a clear marine worm with many appendages branching out of its torso and some dots of colors

Sea worm’s reproductive bits grow their own eyes before mating

By Laura Baisas

Sargassum algae piles up along the shore at a beach in Fajardo, Puerto Rico.

31 million tons of seaweed ready to stink up Florida’s beaches

By Laura Baisas

a humpback whale calf swims in front of its mother

Humpback whales can give birth while migrating thousands of miles

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a human brain with a lightbulb over it, simulating an idea

Your ‘Eureka!’ moments can be seen in brain scans

By Laura Baisas

four puffins with white and black plumage and bright orange bills stand on a rock overlooking the north sea

Puffin-counting season begins with two new livestreams

By Laura Baisas

An illustration of what the Amniote (early reptile) would look like from 350 million years ago.

Amateur paleontologists uncover earliest known ‘reptile’ footprints

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of an extinct arthropod, with three large black eyes, antennae, and 16 body segments

Ancient three-eyed ‘sea moth’ used its butt to breathe

By Laura Baisas

two eaglets with black feathers sitting in nest

Bittersweet fledge watch begins for bald eagles Sunny and Gizmo

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a pink flamingo feeding in a shallow pool. a swirling vortex of water is near its beak

Flamingos conjure ‘water tornadoes’ to trap their prey

By Laura Baisas

a child shows two hands with wrinkled fingers after swimming

Your fingers wrinkle the same way every time they’re in water

By Laura Baisas

A mother chimpanzee carrying her twins on her back.

Wild chimp babies bond with their moms in human-like ways

By Laura Baisas

a close-up of a chimpanzee eating a piece of watermelon

Chimpanzees can keep a rhythmic beat

By Laura Baisas

the skyline of houston, texas

28 big American cities are sinking

By Laura Baisas

a snow leopard walking down a mountainside

Northern India’s elusive snow leopards get their close up

By Laura Baisas

a snail laying an egg from its neck

Watch a snail lay an egg…from its neck

By Laura Baisas

A 3D rendering of a sperm cell.

Next-generation male contraceptives could rely on the perfect temperature

By Laura Baisas

A blue tit flies to a feeder in a garden, where a great spotted woodpecker is currently sitting.

Are backyard bird feeders safe? How to stop illness and intruders.

By Laura Baisas

A Yangtze finless porpoise hunting in China’s Poyang Lake. Fish are jumping all around the porpoise as it leaps out of the water.

Poems spanning 1,400 years tell the tale of a revered porpoise

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a woman with long blonde hair kissing a man with short dark hair

Does kissing spread gluten? New research offers a clue.

By Laura Baisas

a california sea lion sits by a pool

This sea lion can keep a beat better than some humans

By Laura Baisas

white smoke coming out of a chimney

Ask Us Anything

What makes smoke black versus white?

By Laura Baisas

An axolotl crawling up to the aquarium pane at the Hamburg animal shelter.

Endangered Species

Axolotls raised in captivity can survive in the wild

By Laura Baisas

A fringe-lipped bat approaches a Fitzinger's robber frog in Panama. This species of bat eavesdrops on the mating calls that male frogs produce to attract females, and uses these frog calls to detect, assess, and localize its prey.

Young bats develop a ‘caller ID’ to avoid poisonous prey

By Laura Baisas

The introductory page of the pamflyt compiled of cheese. It is written in loopy script on beige paper.

Oldest known English book on cheese advises against drinking dog milk

By Laura Baisas

a bandage with daffy duck from looney tunes on a child's arm

Why using the same arm for vaccines might boost the body’s response

By Laura Baisas

an owl has a full juvenile turtle in her beak. an owlet stands at her feet staring up

Watch an owl try to eat a turtle whole

By Laura Baisas

a person scratches an itchy arm

Your skin is crawling with zombie cells–some help, some hurt

By Laura Baisas

a box labeled measles, mumps, and rubella virus vaccine and two vials

New study: US could see millions of measles cases if vaccination rates keep dropping

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a large red ant with curved jaws. a bird looks on with a concerned expression

Extinct hell ant species used specialized jaws to impale its prey

By Laura Baisas

a small marsupial with white spots stands on the ground

Endangered Species

Watch endangered marsupials return to Australian bushland after 62 years

By Laura Baisas

four jugs of wine are painted on to the wall of ancient ruins

Cheers to Bronze Age humans for delicious Italian wine

By Laura Baisas

a blue, purple, and white galaxy whose clouds of dust and matter appear shaped like a butterfly

Space Telescope

5 dazzling interstellar images to celebrate Hubble’s 35th birthday

By Laura Baisas

An osprey sits on its nest protected by a human-made basket.

To protect birds and motorists, engineers build a steel nest box on bridge

By Laura Baisas

three chimpanzees sit around a round fruit sharing it

Wild chimps sharing ‘boozy’ fruit caught on camera for the first time

By Laura Baisas

a sea slug in the ocean with whispy purple tendrils

Sea slugs harness the power of the sun to show off their colors

By Laura Baisas

George Lucas, Doug Chiang, and John Knoll in a scene from Lucasfilm's LIGHT & MAGIC, Season 2, exclusively on Disney+.

Science Fiction

Q&A: The legendary VFX artist who brought Captain Davy Jones, ‘The Abyss,’ and more to life

By Laura Baisas

a large bird with brown, gray, and white plumage walks in an open grassland

Ancient funerals may have included a ritual feast on a giant bird

By Laura Baisas

Two young gorillas, habituated to human presence, scratch the soil in search of truffles

A group of gorillas have a surprising knack for hunting truffles, researchers find

By Laura Baisas

An illustration of what the aurora might have looked like during a polar reversal about 41,000 years ago. The green glow of an aurora is much further south than we see it today.

Sunscreen may have kept ancient humans alive during a polar reversal

By Laura Baisas

a large gold nugget

Huge gold nugget found by metal detector enthusiasts set for auction

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a small crocodile ancestor sneaking up on a small mammal ancestor

Crocodile ancestors survived two mass extinctions—here’s how

By Laura Baisas

two hot dogs topped with yellow mustard and sauerkraut

Put more sauerkraut on your hot dog (your gut might like it)

By Laura Baisas

A burned section of a large ice age fireplace.

Ice age humans built sophisticated fireplaces

By Laura Baisas

brown egg on blue background

How to make an egg bounce

By Laura Baisas

A man suffering from hay fever next to a flowering shrub.

Ask Us Anything

Why are some cities worse for allergies than others?

By Laura Baisas

a side view of an injured eagle beak that is regrowing some keratin

Images show bald eagle’s beak healing from gunshot wound

By Laura Baisas

several stone tools uncovered in a cave

Archaeologists hike up a cliff and find 20,000-year-old stone tools

By Laura Baisas

a pug named Doug stands on a red carpet with his tongue hanging out the side of his mouth

People tend to trust ‘pet-fluencers’ over human influencers

By Laura Baisas

Archeologists find ancient child remains inside Maya altar

By Laura Baisas

This Hubble image shows Uranus and dynamic aurora activity on 10 October 2022. The centered planet is dominated by a blue hue and a large white region in the lower left. A faint ring is also visible around the planet. Fuzzy blue/purple regions hovering over the planet on the left and ride indicate the presence of aurorae

Space Telescope

Uranus has a longer day than astronomers thought

By Laura Baisas

An artistic rendering of the newly discovered binary star system in the moment where the first white dwarf has just exploded, hurtling material towards its nearby companion which is on the cusp of explosion too. This event will occur in about 23 billion years, yet in only 4 seconds do both stars explode

Astronomers find spiraling stars heading towards a rare cosmic explosion

By Laura Baisas

three men work on planting a tree

A tree with 40 different fruits planted in Philadelphia

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of several mouths talking

How to talk for a very, very long time

By Laura Baisas

An illustration showing how the brain and gut are connected.

The brain remembers what gave you food poisoning

By Laura Baisas

an adult eagle tends to two chicks on a nest

Jackie and Shadow’s eaglets officially named: Meet Sunny and Gizmo

By Laura Baisas

several lightning strikes in the distance. a man crouches down in a squatting position with his hands over his ears. a red circle with a line through it is over the image, indicating that this is not what to do during lightning

Actually, it’s not safe to crouch during a lightning storm

By Laura Baisas

The Greater mouse-tailed bat flies through the night sky, searching for insects

How bats avoid crashing into one another

By Laura Baisas

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