Ben Guarino

Contributing editor

More from Ben Guarino

A seahorse in the Mediterranean,.
Animals

8 animal fathers that take care of their eggs

By Ben Guarino

A gray asteroid against the black background of our solar system.
Science

Why the heck is Earth wet?

By Ben Guarino

A movie still from 'Psycho,' showing the silhouette of a man holding a knife.
Health

How horror movie soundtracks prey on our fears

By Ben Guarino

An annular eclipse, with an orange solar ring around a black moon.
Moons

The best US parks for eclipse chasers to see October’s ‘Ring of Fire’

By Ben Guarino

Runners forming a V-shape with marathoner Eluid Kipchoge in the rear, on a road beside trees.
Fitness & Exercise

The surprising strategy behind running the fastest marathon

By Ben Guarino

Two astronauts walking in spacesuits in a desert
Biology

How do you keep a spacesuit clean? One answer is antimicrobial fabric.

By Ben Guarino

A car passenger appears to feel nauseous with her hand to her mouth.
Biology

What causes motion sickness—and how to avoid it

By Ben Guarino

JWST composite image of barred spiral galaxy NGC 5068, showing its core and part of a spiral arm. Clumps and filaments of dust, represented in a mossy green color, form an almost skeletal structure that follow the twist of the galaxy and its spiral arm.
Deep Space

15 remarkable JWST images that reveal the wonders of our vast universe

By Ben Guarino

A woman running on a desert trail to burn the most calories.
DIY

These heart-pumping exercises burn the most calories

By Ben Guarino

Feeling sad when your favorite show ends? It might be post-series depression.
Health

Feeling sad when your favorite show ends? It might be post-series depression.

By Ben Guarino

Dolphins use echolocation to find fish and navigate in the dark sea.
Animals

How echolocation lets bats, dolphins, and even people navigate by sound

By Ben Guarino

Happy Mother’s Day to nature’s moms, especially spiders who feed themselves to their babies
Animals

Happy Mother’s Day to nature’s moms, especially spiders who feed themselves to their babies

By Lexi Krupp, Ben Guarino

ancient-style illustration of poseidon and workers building seawall
Archaeology

Inside the project to bring ‘self-healing’ Roman concrete to American shorelines

By Ben Guarino

15 rocket launches from SpaceX, NASA, Blue Origin, and more in a collage
Climate Change

Rocket fuel might be polluting the Earth’s upper atmosphere

By Ben Guarino

Baby with RSV in hospital ventilator. Nurse with blue glove is holding their foot.
Diseases

Fighting RSV in babies starts with a mother’s antibodies

By Ben Guarino

Apollo 15 astronaut on lunar rover in black and white NASA image
Moons

10 incredible lunar missions that paved the way for Artemis

By Ben Guarino, Purbita Saha

Nine patients with paralysis walking again with aides in various environments after electrode therapy. Black and white.
Biology

The slow, but promising progress of electrode therapy for paralysis

By Ben Guarino

A winged insect fossil in rock is about 300 million years old, a fossil example of an early animal to take flight.
Animals

When insects got wings, evolution really took off

By Ben Guarino