A widely distributed scam email that quoted people's postal addresses links to a dangerous form of ransomware, according to a security researcher.

Scientists in Japan have successfully transplanted mice with lab-grown skin that has more of the organ's working parts in place than ever before.

For decades, scientists have estimated that the Siberian unicorn -- a long-extinct species of mammal that looked more like a rhino than a horse -- died out some 350,000 years ago, but a beautifully preserved skull found in Kazakhstan has completely overturned that assumption.

Dozens of space scientists are desperately scouring the skies after losing track of a quarter-of-a-billion-dollar Japanese satellite that was sent to study black holes.

When a helicopter pilot spotted the first crater in summer 2014, everyone was baffled. The 100-foot-wide hole appeared on the Yamal Peninsula seemingly out of nowhere, during a tense season of Russian military action in Ukraine and international sanctions.

The world's longest aircraft, an airship spanning more than six double-decker buses, is set to make its maiden flight in the northern hemisphere spring, reports The Sydney Morning Herald quoting British manufacturer Hybrid Air Vehicles.

Two mathematicians uncover a simple, previously unnoticed property of prime numbers—those numbers that are divisible only by 1 and themselves.

The human immune system like fat and blood sugar levels may have been due to genetic mutations from Denisovans, our little known extinct human relatives

Humanity's global population dropped down to only a few thousand individuals around 70,000 years ago and our species almost did not make it. Traumatic as that time was the event had major effects on our species.

Mathematician Andrew Wiles of the University of Oxford is awarded the prestigious Abel Prize for his remarkable proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in the early 90s, reports Business Insider.

Scientists reveal that they have found the first-ever well preserved brain of a Pleistocene canid and after 12,400 years in the frozen soil of the Sakha Republic, a Siberian subject of the Russian Federation, the puppy has been thawed and bares its teeth for the first time since the Pleistocene.

Situated some 250 million miles from Earth, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, is the largest object in the asteroid belt: Ceres.

Recently the internet was surging with articles reporting that scientists have unraveled the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle, but that might be misleading.

A 430,000-year-old human nuclear DNA, the oldest ever to be reconstructed and sequenced reveals Neanderthals in the making- signaling towards a possible need to rewrite our own origins.

This is the birthday of Albert Einstein, one of the greatest theoretical physicist of all time, the father of the general theory of relativity which is considered to be one of the two pillars of modern physics.

Europe and Russia are about to launch a joint mission to the Red Planet.

A new strain of bacteria that can actually eat plastic has been discovered by scientists in Japan, reports CNN.

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) begins its visit to the red planet 10 years ago this week.Since then, the MRO completes about 45,000 trips around Mars, taking more than 200,000 images of it and other objects in the vicinity, according to NASA.

The second round of the Martian farming experiment at Wageningen University and Research Centre in the Netherlands has proven more successful than the last.

Security experts speculate that the mysterious, mile-long landing strip in the remote Nevada desert could be the home base for testing sensors on a top-secret fleet of drones.