More from Laura Baisas (Page 8)

an elephant in a zoo enclosure holds a yellow hose in its trunk and uses the hose as a shower

Watch a clever elephant use a hose to get clean

By Laura Baisas

a lone coyote in a forest looks into a camera lense

Coyotes appear to be thriving under pressure

By Laura Baisas

two bodies from pompeii preserved in white plaster

DNA reveals new stories about Pompeii’s victims

By Laura Baisas

brain scans of people watching clips from movies

MIT maps how the brain experiences movies

By Laura Baisas

a small hippo in straw

Endangered Species

5 things to know about pygmy hippos–like Scotland’s own Haggis

By Laura Baisas

a metal cylinder with various markings on it and what those markings look like on a clay tablet

6,000-year-old Mesopotamian artifacts linked to the dawn of writing

By Laura Baisas

two baseballs held in two hands. one is bright white and the other is coated with a brown mud

Baseball’s legendary ‘magic mud’ finally analyzed by scientists

By Laura Baisas

two sperm whales singing

New method for finding sperm whales kind of works like a rideshare app

By Laura Baisas

a small bat glides over water

How these tiny bats use a sound map to navigate

By Laura Baisas

a white fungus with large red droplets that look like blood

That’s not blood, it’s a fungus oozing excess juice

By Laura Baisas

A Leonids meteor streaks across the sky over Ankara, Turkey on November 17, 2020.

November’s sky lights up with three meteor showers and the last supermoon of 2024

By Laura Baisas

a tadpole swimming

A rock in Argentina turns out to be the oldest tadpole fossil ever found

By Laura Baisas

a large rat wearing a red vest holds a dark, round, ball

Giant three-pound rats trained to sniff out illegal poaching

By Laura Baisas

a brown and black spider money sits in a green and leafy tree with a large, round, yellow fruit in its mouth

‘Drunk’ animals might be more common

By Laura Baisas

An illustration of Lomankus edgecombei. This arthropod lived about 538 to 485 million years ago in dark and low-oxygen environments.

450-million-year-old arthropod found preserved in fool’s gold

By Laura Baisas

a rare dime in a protective case. it is missing the “S” that indicates it was struck at the San Francisco mint.

Ultra-rare dime sells for $506,250

By Laura Baisas

a bat with brown, black, and white fur and open eyes

Robert Battinson, Batlor Swift, and more face off in Bat Beauty Contest

By Laura Baisas

a 900 year old skeleton

Tooth powder unlocks clues to an 800-year-old mystery of man thrown into well

By Laura Baisas

a rider in a headless horseman costume rides by yellow fall leaves

The Headless Horseman shares her secrets

By Laura Baisas

a man wearing a NASA hat aboard the International Space Station squirts ketchup into his mouth. the ketchup comes out in one long stream

See (and never unsee) a NASA astronaut eating ketchup in space

By Laura Baisas

two pink flamingoes. both are standing on one leg

How long can you stand on one leg? What it says about your health.

By Laura Baisas

dark woods with fog

Corrupt government officials, illness among the biggest fears of 2024

By Laura Baisas

a black hole with orange and blue light swirling around it. two other objects, a large orange circle and a smaller bright orange star orbit around it

First ‘black hole triple’ may have formed in a surprisingly gentle way

By Laura Baisas

cut oranges, grapefruits, limes, and lemon together in a group

Yes, you can still get scurvy

By Laura Baisas

orange and yellow leaves on the ground of a forest

Why 60 degrees in fall feels different than in the spring

By Laura Baisas

yellow pollen shooting out of a red flower

Plants could be manipulating sperm in completely new ways

By Laura Baisas

two stalk-eyed flies fight on a stick. these flies have long antennae with eyeballs on the tips

Flies with shorter eye-stalks act aggressively because females are less attracted to them

By Laura Baisas

several orange and black monarch butterflies dot large green leaves

Endangered Species

Scientists build rest stops for monarch butterflies on a volcano

By Laura Baisas

a close up of four pieces of sliced bread

Our love of delicious carbs may go back 800,000 years

By Laura Baisas

A photograph showing two big and two little Pyrocystis noctiluca.

Why these plankton puff up to 6x bigger than normal

By Laura Baisas

a blue whale skeleton on display at a museum

Blue whale skeleton still leaking oil, 26 years after death

By Laura Baisas

a musuem exhibit with a dinosaur skeleton. a picture of actor jeff goldblum saying "that is a one big pile of poop" is in the lower left.

The Poozeum: Fossilized bug farts, T. rex poop, and more ancient coprolites

By Laura Baisas

An illustration showing an imposing fully-grown male Palaeoloxodon turkmenicus wandering India’a Kashmir Valley, 400,000 years ago, towering over a herd of Central Asian red deer. In the distance, a small band of prehistoric humans set up a campfire to cook their meal.

Mysterious elephant species uncovered with 87 prehistoric stone tools

By Laura Baisas

a small frog with light green coloring and dark spots sits on a green leaf

Seven new frog species named for their ‘Star Trek’-esque calls

By Laura Baisas

man stands behind large pumpkin with scarecrow

Gargantuan pumpkin could flavor 74,794 pumpkin spice lattes

By Laura Baisas

a lion skull with a close up on its teeth. one of the bottom teeth has a large black cavity.

These lions devoured 28 humans, wildebeest, and more in 1898

By Laura Baisas

a finch with a sharp beak and dark plumage holds a round seed in its beak

Scientists simulate calls of ‘future finches’

By Laura Baisas

a close-up of the planet jupiter's great red spot. it is a swirling red storm on the planet's more white and orange surface

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot jiggles like JELL-O

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of one woman yelling and another holding her hands up in shock

Why people insist they’re correct without all the facts

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a large hawk-like bird carrying a long tailed rodent in its claws

With fearsome feet, hawk-sized Cretaceous birds could scoop up baby dinos

By Laura Baisas

five toothbrushes in a cup on a bathroom sink

The next lifesaving antibiotic might be a virus on your toothbrush

By Laura Baisas

two oval comb jellyfish fusing together as one

Two comb jellies can fuse together into one–and keep both butts

By Laura Baisas

Geckos have a ‘sixth sense’

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a pterosaur with a short tail walking with legs and its wings on the ground

The first true flying vertebrates walked before they could soar

By Laura Baisas

a grayish brown wombat walking next to shrubs

Can wombats kill with their butts? We found the hard truth.

By Laura Baisas

Illustration of the global coronal magnetic field as the sun rotates. The background is the solar corona observed in extreme-ultraviolet waveband, with global coronal magnetic field maps measured at different time overlapped on top of it.

The sun’s magnetic field is where the ‘stuff’ is. It can be dangerous.

By Laura Baisas

a microscope image of a small crustacean with a round body, two large antennae come from its head, and several small legs

Sorry, zooplankton don’t want to eat your poop

By Laura Baisas

a dolphin in a tank with an open mouth

Bottlenose dolphins ‘smile’ to say it’s time to play

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of an orange dot orbiting a larger orangish body in space

Astronomers discover a new exoplanet orbiting the closest single star to the sun

By Laura Baisas

mount everest with a wide river below

Mount Everest is still growing taller

By Laura Baisas

a bright green meteor streaks across the sky over cliffs

October’s skies bring an oddball meteor and a shiny new comet–if you’re lucky

By Laura Baisas

a condor, a large bird with black plumage, stands near a creek

4 endangered California condors will be released into the wild

By Laura Baisas

a sea robin fish with wide pectoral fins and six crab-like legs

This fish has 6 legs that act like tongues

By Laura Baisas

a CT scan of two jaw fossils from early mammals

A 225-million-year-old fossilized jaw joint shifts evolutionary timeline

By Laura Baisas

a spook-fish with a narrow snout and large pectoral fins

Boo! New species of ghost shark uncovered in New Zealand

By Laura Baisas

Mount Thielsen with a base of rocks and trees around its side

Extinct volcanoes could hold rare earth elements

By Laura Baisas

three species of crane stand in tall grass. the first has grey, black and white plumage and is the tallest. the second has mostly white plumage. the last one is small with gray plumage.

Cranes can migrate 4,000 miles, but that’s not the hard part

By Laura Baisas

dark and finger-like fungi arise from under a piece of wood

Is this the creepiest fungus in the forest? Yes, definitely.

By Laura Baisas

a wave rising up from a flat sea

Extreme 3D ocean waves can reach heights 4x steeper than previously thought

By Laura Baisas

a snake with an open mouth and visible fangs

New tool helps scientists identify venomous snakes

By Laura Baisas

a Byrde's whale surfaces to breathe in the Pacific Ocean

Elusive whale’s vocalization could be their version of ‘Marco Polo’

By Laura Baisas

a small baby pygmy hippopotamus sits on the ground

Humans likely wiped out Cyprus’ tiny hippos and elephants in record time

By Laura Baisas

a cartoon of a young boy named oliver reading Popular Science on a tablet. he said "oh i can be popular by doing science."

Curiosity and fart jokes help explain why ‘Volcanoes are Hot’

By Laura Baisas

a red fish with a grumpy expression and large teeth

Seriously grumpy-faced fish discovered in Red Sea

By Laura Baisas

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