It’s a common misconception that Pterodactyls were dinosaurs. They weren’t birds and they weren’t dinosaurs. They lived during the time of the dinosaurs, so that’s probably the source of the confusion. Pterodactyls were pterosaurs, a family of reptiles separate from dinosaurs that could...

Back in May 2017 when net neutrality was front and center in the news, the comment system on the FCC’s website went down. At the time it was reported to be a coordinated attack by hackers. But a recently released report by the agency’s Office of the Inspector General has concluded the “att...

Rumors are circulating the Internet that Microsoft intends to start charging a monthly fee for Windows 10. Windows 1.0 was released on November 20, 1985. For the past 32 years users have purchased Windows either outright, or as a part of the price of a new PC or laptop. If Microsoft starts charg...

Artistic conception of SIMP J01365663+0933473 Credit: Caltech/Chuck Carter; NRAO/AUI/NSF Astronomers keep finding new exoplanets. That is, planets that exist outside our own solar system. A recent discovery has astronomers stumped. The planet has been named SIMP J01365663...

I dropped my iPhone 6s for the 7th time and it decided it had had enough. Small cracks exploded and the phone became virtually unusable. I've been putting off buying a new phone. I don’t like the iPhone X and I'm waiting for a future model. I went to the nearest Apple store and they wan...

Richard D'Souza Indian Catholic priest, Jesuit, astronomer, and astrophysics scientist Richard D’Souza has found compelling and conclusive evidence of a galaxy thought to have been lost long ago. It is the third biggest (the Andromeda galaxy is the first, our own Milky Way is the second...