More from Laura Baisas (Page 6)

Flagstones enclosure seen shortly after construction in the middle Neolithic period.

This ‘unusual’ stone circle may predate Stonehenge

By Laura Baisas

A mother humpback whale and her calf swimming in warm waters.

Whale pee moves vital nutrients thousands of miles

By Laura Baisas

bald eagle feeds babies fresh fish

Jackie and Shadow’s third eaglet has landed

By Laura Baisas

An illustration of the titanosaur Chadititan calvoi and the other Cretaceous Period organisms it lived with.

New 22-foot-long titanosaur discovered in Argentina

By Laura Baisas

a green frog with its eyes and mouth sticking out of a shallow pool of water

Earth’s ‘Great Dying’ killed 80-90% of life. How some amphibians survived.

By Laura Baisas

two baby eagles tended to by their parent

The famous bald eagle nest live cam is back and we have 3 baby eaglets

By Laura Baisas

a large hornet dismembers a honey bee

1,400 different bug species found in the guts of Asian hornets

By Laura Baisas

A colorful, glowing nebula that reaches beyond the top and bottom of the image. It is made of translucent clouds of gas: wispy and thin with hard edges in some places, and puffy and opaque in others. Blue, red and yellow colours mix together, showing light emitted by different types of atoms in the hot gas. Bright and pointlike stars are scattered across the nebula. The background is black

Space Telescope

Candy-colored atoms shine in new image of the Veil Nebula

By Laura Baisas

three eggs in a nest. the egg on the right has a pip, which is the first crack in a shell. the pip is circled in red

Pips spotted! Live cam bald eagles’ eggs shows hopeful signs of hatching

By Laura Baisas

three narwhals with long tusks swim in the arctic ocean

Narwhals spotted using tusks for non-mating fun

By Laura Baisas

A polar bear mom and cub on sea ice, off the coast of Svalbard, Norway.

See the first moments when 3 polar bear cubs emerge from their den

By Laura Baisas

a humpback whale lunches out of the water with its mouth open

Krill or anchovy? Baleen whale songs may indicate what’s on the menu

By Laura Baisas

a skill with an iron nail driven through it

New clues to the ‘nailed head ritual’ uncovered in Spain

By Laura Baisas

The full disc of Mars is seen with the polar ice caps slightly off centre to the top left and bottom right. Clouds wrap around the planet’s curved horizons. Dark surface markings are clearly seen against the characteristic red tones of the dusty martian surface.

Why is Mars red? Our old understanding might be wrong.

By Laura Baisas

a newly discovered species of plant. it has fuzzy white wool on its green leaves, a yellow center, and two small red flowers

New species of fuzzy sunflower found by national park volunteer

By Laura Baisas

two side by side illustrations. on the left, a man with a red background sweating next to a thermometer with a high temperature. on the right, a man with a blue background shivering next to a thermometer with a lower temperature

What is ‘feels-like’ temperature? A meteorologist explains.

By Laura Baisas

a large bird with a long neck and black plumage called an emu walking around in nature

Emus might not be the ‘world’s dumbest bird’ after all

By Laura Baisas

An illustration of the landscape of Cretaceous Australia. The mega raptor is standing on the right river bank and Carcharodontosaurus is on the left.

A 20-foot-long ‘mega raptor’ once stalked Australia

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of two orchids and their root systems. one is growing near decomposing wood and fungi and has more flowers. the other is still growing, but does not have as many flowers

Parasitic orchids ditch photosynthesis for fungi

By Laura Baisas

a close up of a diver wearing a mask and a fish swimming towards him

Wild fish can recognize human divers

By Laura Baisas

a large orange circle surrounded by a blue square

Astrophysicists surprised by light show around the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of an extinct big cat about the size of a leopard. it is brown with sharp teeth

Skull of a 30-million-year-old apex predator discovered in Egypt

By Laura Baisas

a cuttlefish swimming in the ocean

Cuttlefish ink can help keep sharks away from humans

By Laura Baisas

Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Captain America in Marvel Studios’ CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD.

Could we really make Captain America’s shield? A materials scientist weighs in.

By Laura Baisas

a seal with grey coloring wearing an orange heart rate monitor around its abdomen

Baby seals are wearing heart monitors–for science

By Laura Baisas

one jaw fossil and six vertebrae fossils lined up

500,000 years ago, a bunch of animals fell into a Florida sink hole

By Laura Baisas

a turtle peeks its head out of the water

These sea turtles ‘dance’ when magnetic fields lead them to a snack

By Laura Baisas

a hand written text from the 16th century CE

500-year-old Transylvanian diaries detail the peril of the Little Ice Age

By Laura Baisas

A blow fly larva disguised as a termite, antennae and all.

Rare fly species wears fake termite head to infiltrate nests

By Laura Baisas

The Earth's internal layers including the mantle, outer core, and inner core.

Earth’s inner core is less solid than we thought

By Laura Baisas

The ring of light surrounding the centre of the galaxy NGC 6505, captured by ESA’s Euclid telescope, is a stunning example of an Einstein ring. NGC 6505 is acting as a gravitational lens, bending light from a galaxy far behind it. The almost perfect alignment of NGC 6505 and the background galaxy has bent and magnified the light from the background galaxy into a spectacular ring. This rare phenomenon was first theorised to exist by Einstein in his general theory of relativity. This wide field shows the extended stellar halo of NGC 6505 and showcases the Einstein ring, surrounded by colourful foreground stars and background galaxies.

Space Telescope

Extremely rare ‘Einstein ring’ discovered close to Earth

By Laura Baisas

a long python snake coiled in the grass with its head poking up

Hunting for Burmese pythons is best done in the dark

By Laura Baisas

a close up of a brightly colored mantis shrimp. they have two buldging eyes and greenish-yellow side appendages that they use to punch

How mantis shrimp protect their powerful ‘fists’ of fury

By Laura Baisas

a black and white dog called a border collie sniffs around green grass

Border collies out-sniff some hunting dogs in scientific smell competition

By Laura Baisas

an orange kitten with its paw up

Relax, Whiskers. Scotland is not banning cats

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of two long-beaked birds diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with circular ammonites and long plesiosaurs for company.

After the asteroid, the earliest bird ancestors thrived in Antarctica

By Laura Baisas

A close-in image of a protoplanetary disc around a newly formed star. Many different wavelengths of light are combined and represented by separate and various colours. A dark line across the centre is the disc, made of opaque dust: the star is hidden in here and creates a strong glow in the centre. A band going straight up is a jet, while other outflows form flares above and below the disc, and a tail coming off to one side.

Space Telescope

Newborn stars surround a planet-forming disk 450 million light years away

By Laura Baisas

a tiny green frog looking up from water

Endangered Species

Frogs rescued from a deadly fungus welcome 33 froglets

By Laura Baisas

People gather around a tall bonze sculpture of a dragon that emits actual fire

Fire-breathing dragon sculpture not allowed to breathe fire

By Laura Baisas

a close up of a human ear

Most humans haven’t moved these muscles in 25 million years

By Laura Baisas

a woman reaches to scratch a red rash on her upper back

Why scratching a rash really does make it worse

By Laura Baisas

a spider with a large white fungus covering its head

Fungus-infected zombie spiders discovered in Northern Ireland

By Laura Baisas

Pulmonary tuberculosis,spreading through the lungs.

Clinical trial finds three new ways to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis

By Laura Baisas

A polar bear still hunting on the sea ice of Hudson Bay, Manitoba, Canada.

How do polar bears keep ice off their fur? Grease.

By Laura Baisas

An aerial view of the Crater Lake Caldera in Oregon.

Magma chambers found lurking in dormant volcanoes

By Laura Baisas

A portion of the Bayeux Tapestry showing King Harold riding to his residence, Bosham. The full tapestry depicts the Norman Conquest of England in 1066.

Medieval toilet helps uncover lost home of the England’s last Anglo-Saxon King

By Laura Baisas

Finally, scientists get a penguin’s-eye-view of the world

By Laura Baisas

a baby swell shark swimming in a tank

Aquarium surprised by shark born in a tank without males

By Laura Baisas

A Priority Mail stamp featuring spiral galaxy NGC 628 (left). A Priority Mail Express stamp of star cluster IC 348 (right). Both of these new stamps were issued on January 21 and designed by U.S. Postal Service art director Greg Breeding.

Space Telescope

Calling all philatelists: U.S. Postal Services issues two new JWST stamps

By Laura Baisas

Visitors seen taking photos of the Corpse Flower's blossom at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. One of the biggest and smelliest flowers in the world blooms at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney in Australia on January 23, 2025. It last bloomed in Sydney in 2010.

5 facts about corpse flowers that don’t stink

By Laura Baisas

a scientist holds a large rescued sea turtle in a lab

Endangered Species

Dozens of cold-stunned turtles rescued in Florida

By Laura Baisas

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare–as seen in the bright flash on the right side–on September 10, 2017. The image shows a combination of wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light that highlights the extremely hot material in flares, which has then been colorized.

Could the Carrington Event happen again?

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a small dinosaur with its tail in their air

Where in the world are Earth’s oldest dinosaurs?

By Laura Baisas

the stone remains of a castle, revealing an archway, wall, and a tower

In a global crisis, working harder isn’t the best solution

By Laura Baisas

a scientist in a lab pierces the inside of an oyster to extract blood

Oyster blood could fight superbugs

By Laura Baisas

a close up of a dog's nose

Dogs sniff out two new species of truffle

By Laura Baisas

a white ring of salt at the bottom of a black pan

Curious and hungry physicists whip up perfect pasta pan salt rings

By Laura Baisas

Three chimpanzees in an enclosure at the Kumamoto Sanctuary holding leafy branches.

Peeing is contagious for chimpanzees

By Laura Baisas

a step pyramid built with stone above several smaller buildings

Apex predators were sacrificed nearly 2,000 years ago in Teotihuacán

By Laura Baisas

Two little blue penguins at a nest in Timaru, New Zealand.

When penguins divorce, the whole colony is impacted

By Laura Baisas

Quill pen on old journal with parchment background and handwriting.

Know how to read cursive? The National Archives wants you.

By Laura Baisas

The great green bush-cricket.

Parasitic crickets have a few moves to outsmart ants

By Laura Baisas

two stones with depictions of the sun engraved on them

Neolithic Europeans sacrificed stones to beg the sun to return

By Laura Baisas

an archeologist wearing a hard hat digs in a hole alongside skeletal remains

British Iron Age burial grounds reveal women had power

By Laura Baisas

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