Science

Some Persiders of 2019, as seen from Macedonia. Spaceweather.com/Stojan Stojanovski It’s early August, which means the annual Perseid meteor shower is active, and it’s ready to peak this week. The Perseids are one of the best, brightest batches of shooting stars, and it feels like we could use them now …

Hillary Swank dies as an elite astronaut prepares for a manned mission to Mars in the new Netflix sci-fi drama series Away. An elite international team of astronauts must leave family and friends behind for a three-year mission to Mars Away, a new science fiction drama from Netflix, starring Hilary …

This illustration shows Deinosuchus from bone to flesh. Tyler Stone Let’s turn the clock back millions of years to a time when crocodiles lived as long as buses in America. A new study of fossils of Deinosuchus has revealed more details about what these mind-boggling predators looked like and how …

Hong Kong authorities on Monday arrested a leading pro-democracy media mogul, another sign that the sweeping national security law imposed by China last month was undermining the freedoms of the territory. Jimmy Lai was arrested on Monday on charges of collaborating with foreign powers. Lai is the founder and owner …

A team of scientists from the University of Essex has increased the productivity of crops by 27 percent by solving two bottlenecks in photosynthesis – the process by which plants fix carbon dioxide in the sugars that feed on crop growth. Chidi Afamefule (left) maintains an unmodified control plant, while …