More from Laura Baisas (Page 7)

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

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
Archaeology

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
Medicine

Oyster blood could fight superbugs

By Laura Baisas

a close up of a dog's nose
Dogs

Dogs sniff out two new species of truffle

By Laura Baisas

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

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.
Wildlife

Peeing is contagious for chimpanzees

By Laura Baisas

a step pyramid built with stone above several smaller buildings
Archaeology

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.
Birds

When penguins divorce, the whole colony is impacted

By Laura Baisas

Quill pen on old journal with parchment background and handwriting.
AI

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

By Laura Baisas

The great green bush-cricket.
Insects

Parasitic crickets have a few moves to outsmart ants

By Laura Baisas

two stones with depictions of the sun engraved on them
Archaeology

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
Archaeology

British Iron Age burial grounds reveal women had power

By Laura Baisas

The 3D map on the Ségognole 3 cave floor in the Paris Basin in northern France.
Archaeology

Oldest-known 3D map also celebrated the female form

By Laura Baisas

a line of gold coins, which feature emperors, on a black background.
Archaeology

Rare Roman gold coins discovered in Luxembourg

By Laura Baisas

a close up of an isopod with antenne and a segmented body
Wildlife

New foot-long crustacean named after Darth Vader

By Laura Baisas

several dark dots on mummified skin. the skin appears to be white since it is under a strong white light
Archaeology

Intricate tattoos on 1,200-year-old mummy revealed by lasers

By Laura Baisas

a blue lobster-looking animal called a crayfish. it has long claws, antennae, and a segmented body
Wildlife

New colorful species of crayfish discovered in aquarium shipment

By Laura Baisas

a small bird sits in a tree with its beak open wide
Birds

Why do birds make so many different sounds? 100,000 audio recordings offer clues.

By Laura Baisas

a skull next to a yellow note that reads: "Skull from Ephesus.”
Archaeology

Sorry, this skull does not belong to Cleopatra’s sister

By Laura Baisas

Planet Mercury in the background with its grey, cratered, pockmarked surface. In the foreground are some spacecraft parts
Solar System

Mercury stuns in incredibly detailed new images

By Laura Baisas

a yellow cardinal sits on a tree branch
Birds

Extremely rare yellow cardinal flies into a Michigan backyard

By Laura Baisas

a scientist weather a larger winder coat and hat examines a cylindrical piece of ice
Climate Change

1.2-million-year-old ice pulled up from under Antarctica

By Laura Baisas

a green glow of bioluminescence from a mushroom
Environment

Artists find a green, glowing mushroom in a Swiss forest

By Laura Baisas

a small brown fish swimming in a tank
Fish

These fish can mate 19 times per day

By Laura Baisas

a tomb in a desert
Archaeology

Archaeologists find the 4,000-year-old tomb of an overachieving Egyptian magician

By Laura Baisas

a long whale shark with gray spots swims in the ocean
Sharks

Whale shark pre-mating ritual observed for the first time

By Laura Baisas

a bird with white and black plummage and an egg on a nest and three other birds standing around her
Bears

Which animals reproduce at the oldest age?

By Laura Baisas

a baby pygmy hippo in an indoor tank with its mother nearby
Endangered Species

Newest pygmy hippo born on US soil gets a name

By Laura Baisas

a woman nuzzles a dog
Biology

Meet the former musher investigating sled dog genetics

By Laura Baisas

a brown dog ups up onto a tree and sniffs it, while its human handler points to what it is sniffing
Land

Sniffing dogs join the fight against invasive spotted lanternflies

By Laura Baisas

a dark brown moray eel
Wildlife

New ‘Hades’ moray eel discovered by accident

By Laura Baisas

meteors fall in the night sky near a lighthouse
Space

January stargazing: Ring in 2025 with a meteor shower, ‘planet parade,’ and best chance to spot Mars

By Laura Baisas

a mummy with a necklace of cheese
Archaeology

10 fascinating archeological discoveries of 2024

By Laura Baisas

a baby pygmy hippo stands on straw at a zoo
Animals

11 weird, groundbreaking, and cute animal stories from 2024

By Laura Baisas

a black and white photograph of NASA mission control. several men are sitting at various screens and work stations
NASA

On Christmas Eve 1968, millions watched the Apollo 8 astronauts broadcast from space

By Laura Baisas

An adult female chimpanzee cracks an oil palm nut with a stone hammer and anvil while her infant son looks at the camera.
Wildlife

Some chimpanzees are great nutcrackers

By Laura Baisas

a svalbard reindeer with antlers standing on muddy terrain
Wildlife

Shorter, fatter, and hairier: 5 fun facts about the world’s smallest reindeer

By Laura Baisas

a strange fish with a blob on its head sits on a rock
Land

27 new, exciting, and blobby species discovered in the Peruvian rainforest

By Laura Baisas

An artistic representation of an active centaur like Chiron. The different colors in the coma indicate varying compositions of gas, ice, and dust.
Solar System

An ‘oddball’ asteroid-comet hybrid dates back 4.6 billion years

By Laura Baisas

The first image depicts star cluster NGC 602 in vibrant and festive colors. The cluster includes a giant dust cloud ring, shown in greens, yellows, blues, and oranges. The green hues and feathery edges of the ring cloud create the appearance of a wreath made of evergreen boughs. Hints of red representing X-rays provide shading, highlighting layers within the wreath-like ring cloud. The image is aglow with specks and dots of colorful, festive light, in blues, golds, whites, oranges, and reds. These lights represent stars within the cluster. Some of the lights gleam with diffraction spikes, while others emit a warm, diffuse glow. Upon closer inspection, many of the glowing specks have spiraling arms, indicating that they are, in fact, distant galaxies.
Mars

Happy holidays from space!

By Laura Baisas

A Sombrero ground lizard (Pholidoscelis corvinus) photographed on Sombrero Island in June 2021. This species is endemic to the Carribbean island.
Land

Population of nearly extinct lizard grows 16X in only six years

By Laura Baisas

An Andean bear at the nature reserve Bioparque Wakata, in Briceno municipality near Bogota, Colombia, on June 21, 2023.
Land

Shy ‘Paddington’ bears need more plants to survive

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a black hole
Black Holes

Enormous black hole napping after eating a ton of gas

By Laura Baisas

a squirrel sits eating a vole, pulling its meat with its teeth
Wildlife

‘Shocking:’ These squirrels are hunting and eating other rodents

By Laura Baisas

a turtle swims in a tank wearing a black weighted harness on its side
Biology

Sea turtle with ‘bubble butt syndrome’ gets a 3D-printed custom harness

By Laura Baisas

A reconstruction of the oldest known gorgonopsian in life.
Wildlife

This dog-like predator is the oldest known mammal ancestor

By Laura Baisas

a small blue-colored penguin called a little penguin swims in the ocean
Ocean

Turtles and penguins have a swimming sweet spot that reduces drag

By Laura Baisas

four human bones that show evidence of being chewed on by other humans
Archaeology

Bronze Age butchery and cannibalism unearthed in England

By Laura Baisas

a close up of the eyes of an older dog. it has black fur with touches of grey
Dogs

Is my dog ‘old’? Vets finally have the answers

By Laura Baisas

red brain neurons
Medicine

Why is deep sleep so important to memory? It’s about time.

By Laura Baisas

waves in a deep cavern
Fish

Earthquake off northern California shook the water in Devils Hole, 500 miles away

By Laura Baisas

The 5,600-year-old teeth and other bones from this study were found near Kosenivka, Ukraine and are some of the only human remains found that are associated with the Cucuteni-Trypilla culture.
Archaeology

Fire likely killed a group of Stone Age humans uncovered in Ukraine

By Laura Baisas

A juvenile Nile crocodile. It is small with pointed teeth
Wildlife

Why are crocodiles so bumpy? A dermatological mystery has been solved

By Laura Baisas

a new shrimp-like crustacean. it is white with two protruding tusk-like appendages at its head, at least 8 legs, and two tail-like appendages at the back
Ocean

New predator uncovered 25,000+ feet under the Pacific

By Laura Baisas

a microscopic zooplankton
Ocean

Microscopic ‘eating and pooping machines’ are great at sucking up carbon

By Laura Baisas

a woman leading a dance rehearsal in the a studio
Physics

How the Rockettes use math to make holiday magic

By Laura Baisas

An illustration of an Early Cretaceous floodplain in southeastern England, 135 million years ago: a spinosaur (center) takes over the carcass of an ornithopod, much to the annoyance of the smaller tyrannosaurs (left) and dromaeosaurids (bottom right).
Dinosaurs

Retired quarryman uncovers fossilized tyrannosaur teeth

By Laura Baisas

two twisted bowstrings uncovered from a cave
Archaeology

Europe’s oldest known bowstrings found in a cave in Spain

By Laura Baisas

Two views of a slingshot spider (Theridiosoma gemmosum) web. The right image shows the web’s cone shape with a spider at the tip.
Spiders

Watch a slingshot spider deploy a perfectly-timed trap

By Laura Baisas

a siberian husky sits in the snow. it has piercing blue eyes and its ears are perked up
Evolution

Humans gave dogs treats 12,000 years ago, new archeological evidence suggests

By Laura Baisas

The anglerfish species Lophius piscatorius.
Evolution

Anglerfish are so much more than just their dangly bioluminescent lures

By Laura Baisas

brain scans in pink, blue, and yellow
Animals

Humans may have big brains thanks to our gut

By Laura Baisas

cattle grazing in a field
Agriculture

Feeding seaweed to gassy cattle can reduce methane

By Laura Baisas

a constellation of seven stars grouped in a circle
Space

December’s skies illuminate with the Seven Sisters and Cold Moon

By Laura Baisas