More from Laura Baisas (Page 8)

Each individual strand is too narrow to be clearly captured by any form of visible light camera or microscope.

Behold the world’s thinnest spaghetti

By Laura Baisas

A mother and calf West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) in Crystal River, Florida.

Florida’s famous manatees were originally tourists

By Laura Baisas

a side by side of a rare gold coin from 1870

Rare California Gold Rush coin fetches $1.44 million at auction

By Laura Baisas

an astronaut on a spacewalk in a full spacesuit takes a selfie with earth in the background

International Space Station

Six months in space is not that bad for your brain

By Laura Baisas

stone walls separating several small houses in ireland

Scottish, Irish, and Northern English better at detecting fake accents

By Laura Baisas

a silver coin minted before the american revolution. one side has the letters NE on it for new england and the other has the roman numeral 3 for its value

Colonial silver coin found in cabinet sells for $2.5 million

By Laura Baisas

An illustration of two Skiphosoura bavarica in flight.

New pterosaur species sliced through the air with a sword-like tail

By Laura Baisas

a tick half embedded in human skin

How hitchhiking ticks are bringing diseases to new places

By Laura Baisas

a molting penguin with a mixture of feathers

Famously extra large penguin Pesto is molting

By Laura Baisas

a female mountain lion walks at night with some kittens behind her

Mountain lions in Los Angeles become night owls to avoid humans

By Laura Baisas

a small bird with black, gray, and white, plumage solves a puzzle in a lab

Immigrating great tits learn from their new neighbors

By Laura Baisas

A diver from National Geographic Pristine Seas measures the world’s largest coral colony in the Solomon Islands.

World’s largest coral discovered and it’s longer than a blue whale

By Laura Baisas

a colorful coral reef with fish swimming above it

Chlorine and cocoa butter may help disease-ridden corals

By Laura Baisas

a large lump of fat, oil, grease, and other refuse dug up from a sewer on display in a musuem

The battle against fatbergs has a new weapon

By Laura Baisas

x-ray scans of early human skulls. the teeth are colored red, green, orange, blue, and purple to show the differences among them

These 1.77-million-year-old teeth could help demystify human childhoods

By Laura Baisas

a small baby gibbon with large eyes sits on its mother

Endangered newborn siamang gibbon is a ‘sign of hope’

By Laura Baisas

a new mollusc with a hood over its head

New deep-sea slug catches crustaceans like a Venus fly trap

By Laura Baisas

a person performs CPR

Bystander CPR done within 10 minutes likely increases survival rates

By Laura Baisas

a yellow dog shakes excess water off of its fur

Why wet dogs shake so much

By Laura Baisas

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

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