The wide-field optical camera on ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope (VST) — has captured the spectacular Orion Nebula and its associated cluster of young stars in great detail. This object is one of the closest stellar nurseries for both low and high-mass stars, at a distance of about 1350 light-years [1].

As virtually every school-aged child knows, birds are descended from dinosaurs. But holy toledo, does this newly discovered oviraptorid ever look like a modern cassowary—right from the dramatic crest atop its head through to its long neck and ostrich-like shape. The paleontologists who discovered the dino are now studying modern cassowaries to get a better sense of its potential behavior.

Climate ‘scientists’ are always ‘denying’ there was such a thing as a global Roman warm period but in Alaska—7000 km from Europe—shows warming at the same time!

Visionary entrepreneur Elon Musk and Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg were trading jabs on social media over artificial intelligence this week in a debate that has turned personal between the two technology luminaries.

The discovery of new bones belonging to a long-necked sauropod named Austrosaurus Mckillop has been announced by a team of Australian and British paleontologists.

The average daily July temperature at all NOAA US HCN stations has dropped since 1895.

After being infected again with malaria last July, I spent almost a month in a Kampala hospital. Paying for my treatment was extremely difficult, as it is for most Ugandan and African families. I was lucky I could scrape the money together. Many families cannot afford proper treatment.

That’s right, according to NASA, sea levels are going DOWN! This is big news. How come the media hasn’t mentioned it?

Plans to ban the sale of new diesel and petrol cars by 2040 in a bid to encourage people to buy electric vehicles are a “tall order” and will place unprecedented strain on the National Grid, motoring experts have warned.

Scott Pruitt and Steven Koonin have climate scientist-activists and their media promoters ranting and sputtering in an epic meltdown.

The European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) has captured a stunning image of a spiral galaxy called Messier 77.

Although it was launched last year, Google Smart Reply didn’t come to my attention until this past May. At the bottom of an email, I noticed three boxed selections containing built-in responses. They were fairly similar to what I would’ve typed out: “Thanks!” or “Sounds good.” or “Got it.”

Aerospace contractor Lockheed Martin announced Tuesday that it received approval to use repurposed space shuttle parts to build a habitat for a potential manned mission to Mars.

A YouGov poll released Monday found that while 57 percent of American adults believe in global warming, most have done little to eat less red meat and use fewer fossil fuels.

The Independent, not to mention Michael Mann, long ago lost any credibility. Here’s a good example why:

A prototype of what could be the next generation of space stations is currently in orbit around the Earth.