More from Laura Baisas

Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship the Nimrod, among the ice in McMurdo's Sound, Antarctica.
Agriculture

Cracking open a 117-year-old Antarctic milk time capsule

By Laura Baisas

the facial reconstruction of Emperor Wu, an ancient Chinese ruler of the Northern Zhou dynasty. he has dark hair, tan skin.
Archaeology

Scientists recreate the face of an ancient Chinese emperor

By Laura Baisas

dairy cows eating animal feed
Agriculture

Bird flu detected in dairy cow milk samples

By Laura Baisas

a prehistoric tooth in a lab
Archaeology

Rare traces of tooth decay and gum disease found in Bronze Age teeth

By Laura Baisas

the icy white core of a comet surrounded by green dust
Science

Don’t miss your chance to see the cryovolcanic ‘devil comet’

By Laura Baisas

A songbird called the Japanese tit (Parus minor) perching on a rock in Thailand.
Animals

These birds appear to be signaling ‘after you’

By Laura Baisas

A beetle with black and white fuzz sits on a leaf.
Animals

New fluffy longhorn beetle discovered in Australia

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of an extinct species of pink river dolphin in murky water
Animals

Paleontologists uncover enormous fossilized river dolphin skull in Peru

By Laura Baisas

Kermit the Frog strumming the banjo, along with a fossil skull of Kermitops (left) and a modern frog skull (right). Kermitops’ discovery is filling in some major evolutionary gaps for amphibians.
Animals

New proto-amphibian species named after Kermit the Frog

By Laura Baisas

a black and white orca whale leaps out of the ocean while hunting a sea lion. another whale is surfacing near by.
Animals

How crafty orca whales hunt near submarine canyons

By Laura Baisas

A circular asteroid with a smaller rock orbiting it. The asteroid Dimorphos was captured by NASA’s DART mission just two seconds before the spacecraft struck its surface on September 26, 2022.
NASA

NASA’s asteroid blaster turned a space rock into an ‘oblong watermelon’

By Laura Baisas

An illustration of the Bronze Age stilt settlement uncovered at Must Farm in eastern England. Five circular dwellings stand above a boggy wetland.
Archaeology

Bronze Age village was ‘pretty cozy’—until Britain’s Pompeii

By Laura Baisas

a sign outside of a construction site reads "danger, asbestos removal in progress"
Diseases

EPA rule finally bans the most common form of asbestos

By Laura Baisas

human remains uncovered in Sweden.
Archaeology

Kissing and eating during the Stone Age ‘could be lethal’

By Laura Baisas

Jackie and Shadow tending to the eggs as snow covers the region on March 7, 2024.
Animals

Sadly, these live-streamed bald eagle eggs likely won’t hatch

By Laura Baisas

a close up of the antlers of an irish elk
Animals

Ireland was once home to deer with massive 12-foot antlers

By Laura Baisas

A screenshot of one unidentified small hawkmoth unsuccessful visit to an orchid, recorded with a camera trap.
Biology

‘Spectacular’ new orchid species is pollinated by moths

By Laura Baisas

a group of burmese pythons
Agriculture

Scientists propose eating more python

By Laura Baisas

two men in scuba gear install a sound system by a coral reef
Animals

Healthy reef soundscapes can help degraded coral reefs grow

By Laura Baisas

several small and translucent glass eels on a yellow cloth
Animals

How citizen scientists are protecting ‘glass eels’

By Laura Baisas

NASA astronaut Scott Tingle is pictured during a 2018 spacewalk to swap out a degraded robotic hand on the Canadarm2.
Health

‘Space headaches’ could be a real pain for astronauts

By Laura Baisas

a human wears a fox mask while feeding a baby fox in its care
Animals

Wildlife care staff wear fox masks to care for orphaned kit

By Laura Baisas

a group of black and white ring-tailed lemurs sitting in green trees.
Animals

Sorry, Darwin: Most male mammals aren’t bigger than females

By Laura Baisas

a cicada in a tree
Animals

Cicadas pee in jet streams like bigger animals

By Laura Baisas

A potentially new squid species found off the coast of the South Island of New Zealand.
Animals

New squid alert! 100+ species discovered off the coast of New Zealand

By Laura Baisas

two termites trapped in an oval shaped bit of amber
Animals

These extinct termites have been stuck in a mating position for 38 million years

By Laura Baisas

fish swimming by a healthy coral reef
Animals

Sandy ‘Reef Stars’ help bring life back to coral reefs hurt by dynamite fishing

By Laura Baisas

rocky cliffs with pockmarks where the fossils were found
Biology

World’s oldest known fossilized forest discovered in England

By Laura Baisas

a deep sea worm with feathery appendages
Animals

Newly discovered deep-sea worm moves like a ‘living magic carpet’

By Laura Baisas

scans of the anatomy of different animals
Animals

Take a look inside 13,000 animals–no scalpel required

By Laura Baisas

A silver gar fish with a long snout.
Animals

Meet the new king of the ‘living fossils’

By Laura Baisas

Firey lava spews out La Cumbre volcano on March 3, 2024 in Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. La Cumbre volcano, located on Fernandina Island of the archipelago, erupted on Saturday, March 2.
Science

Volcano on island in the Galapagos spews lava into the sea

By Laura Baisas

Sun rises over tall sand dunes. The Erg Chebbi region of the Sahara desert in Morocco. The region is home to the 984 foot tall Lala Lallia star dune.
Archaeology

The mysterious ‘star dune’ in the Sahara is on the move

By Laura Baisas

M74 aka the Phantom Galaxy shown in a combined optical/mid-infrared image, featuring data from both the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope. It is one of the celestial objects featured
Deep Space

Listen to three breathtaking NASA images

By Laura Baisas

An orca whale hunts a great white shark. Blood is seen near the orca's mouth.
Animals

Orca observed hunting and killing a great white shark by itself for the first time

By Laura Baisas

Three eggs in a nest, while a bald eagle attends to it.
Animals

Watch: Three bald eagles could hatch any day now

By Laura Baisas

A doctor puts a bandage on the upper arm of a senior citizen.
COVID-19

CDC recommends Americans 65 and over get additional COVID-19 vaccine

By Laura Baisas

The full moon rises behind the Castel del Monte in Andria, Italy on March 7, 2023. March's full moon is also called the worm moon.
Moons

March’s skies shine with the worm moon, a bright Mercury, and penumbral lunar eclipse

By Laura Baisas

A capuchin monkey with a long tail walking along a tree branch.
Biology

Why we don’t have tails

By Laura Baisas

Shelled and unshelled hazlenuts on a wooden table.
Agriculture

Humans have been eating hazelnuts for at least 6,000 years

By Laura Baisas

A small translucent fish with its organs visible swims in a tank.
Animals

This tiny fish is louder than an airplane taking off

By Laura Baisas

A syringe with a measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine next to its packaging.
Diseases

How to check your measles vaccination status amid outbreak

By Laura Baisas

An orange Chaunacops fish swimming in the waters of Chile’s Nazca-Desventuradas Marine Park.
Animals

See the strange new species discovered near Chile—with the help of a deep-diving sea robot

By Laura Baisas

The discovery image of the new Uranian moon S/2023 U1 using the Magellan telescope. Uranus is just off the field of view in the upper left, as seen by the increased scattered light. S/2023 U1 is the faint point of light in the center of the image with the arrow pointing to it. The trails are from background stars.
Moons

Astronomers discover new moons orbiting Uranus and Neptune

By Laura Baisas

Sea cucumbers and fish feeding at a coral reef.
Animals

Sea cucumbers are the ‘scum suckers’ corals desperately need

By Laura Baisas

An artist's illustration of Dinocephalosaurus orientalis with a long neck and sharp teeth swimming alongside prehistoric fish.
Dinosaurs

240-million-year-old ‘Chinese dragon’ fossil reveals 32 separate neck vertebrae

By Laura Baisas

A combination of a Hubble Space Telescope image of SN 1987A and the compact argon source. The faint blue source in the center is the emission from the compact source detected with the James Webb Space Telescope. Outside this is the stellar debris, which contains most of the mass. The inner bright “string of pearls” is the gas from the outer layers of the star that was expelled about 20,000 years before the final explosion. The fast debris is now colliding with the ring, explaining the bright spots. Outside of the inner ring are two outer rings, presumably produced by the same process as forming the inner ring. The bright stars to the left and right of the inner ring are unrelated to the supernova.
Deep Space

JWST detects evidence of a neutron star in fiery supernova remains

By Laura Baisas

Odysseus passes over the near side of the moon. The photo was taken while the spacecraft was orbiting the moon.
Moons

‘Odie’ makes space history with successful moon landing

By Laura Baisas

A photograph taken in the spring of 2016 of the debris field from an October 2015 landslide extends over the toe of the Tyndall Glacier and into Taan Fjord.
Conservation

A new algorithm could help detect landslides in minutes

By Laura Baisas

Two sea lampreys. They have circular heads with rows of teeth and a suction cup mouth at the center.
Animals

You might have more in common with the sea lamprey than you realize

By Laura Baisas

‘Lost Bird’ not seen in 20 years photographed for the first time
Animals

‘Lost Bird’ not seen in 20 years photographed for the first time

By Laura Baisas

The stone tool was glued into a handle with an adhesive that is made of liquid bitumen, with the addition of 55 percent ochre. It is no longer sticky and can be handled easily.
Archaeology

Neanderthals likely used glue to make tools

By Laura Baisas

A single humpback whale calf swimming in the waters off of French Polynesia.
Animals

We finally know how baleen whales make noise

By Laura Baisas

The planet Earth as seen from space, aboard the Odysseus spacecraft.
Moons

‘Odie’ snaps its first images of Earth on its way to the moon

By Laura Baisas

Giant Antarctic sea spiders can grow up to 20 inches wide.
Animals

Giant Antarctic sea spiders’ reproductive mystery solved after 140 years of confusion

By Laura Baisas

An artist’s impression of quasar J059-4351, the bright core of a distant galaxy that is powered by a supermassive black hole. This quasar has been found to be the most luminous object known in the universe to date.
Black Holes

Fastest-growing black hole eats the equivalent of one sun a day

By Laura Baisas

A purple and white carnivorous plant called Arisaema thunbergii growing in a forest. It has a tube and cup shaped flower and uses a musky odor to lure fungus gnats.
Animals

Bug-munching plant turns insect nurseries into death traps

By Laura Baisas

A graphic rendering of an asteroid in space, with a close up on where water molecules are on the surface.
NASA

Water molecules detected on the surface of an asteroid in space for the first time

By Laura Baisas

Tridentinosaurus antiquus was discovered in the Italian Alps in 1931 and was believed to be an important specimen for understanding early reptile evolution.
Animals

Famous 280-million-year-old fossil is partially fake

By Laura Baisas

A common vole in a wooded area.
Diseases

First Alaskapox death reported: What you should know about the virus

By Laura Baisas

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lunar lander lifts off from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida a
Moons

‘Odie’ is en route for its potentially historic moon landing

By Laura Baisas

A clear glass tea cup with steaming brown tea sits on a table next to a green tea leaves.
Agriculture

The ingredients for a tastier, stronger tea could be in the soil

By Laura Baisas

Two lionesses. One tilts her head towards the left, while the other sticks out her tongue.
Animals

Captive big cats can tell voices apart

By Laura Baisas

The skeletal remains of a frog and a human were uncovered at Seminario Vescovile in Verona, Italy.
Animals

Iron Age humans found mysteriously buried with dogs and horses

By Laura Baisas