Twice in the space of six weeks, the world has suffered major attacks of ransomware — malicious software that locks up photos and other files stored on your computer then demands money to release them.

It’s clear that the world needs better defenses, and fortunately, those are starting to emerge, if slowly and in patchwork fashion. When they arrive, we may have artificial intelligence to thank.

European and Japanese scientists Thursday proudly unveiled the BepiColombo spacecraft ahead of its seven-year journey to Mercury, one of the Solar System’s most enigmatic planets.

The Peruvian priestess dubbed Lady of Cao died 1,700 years ago, but her face has come back to life, thanks to 3D printing.

For straight guys, seeing images of two men kissing creates the same physiological stress as pictures of rotting flesh and maggots, according to research published recently.

A group of students has developed a way of storing energy that could be cheaper to make, more practical and more sustainable than alternative renewable fuels.

They are young and clever, and they want to change the world – one bus at a time.

A group of astronomers has shown that the fastest-moving stars in our galaxy – which are traveling so fast that they can escape the Milky Way – are in fact runaways from a much smaller galaxy in orbit around our own.

Within three decades people will no longer be having sex to procreate, a professor from Stanford University has said.

If you want to know what’s really going on with global warming watch this video by Tony Heller.

It’s called The Ministry of Climate Truth – Erasing The Satellite Data and tells a story so shameful that if the mainstream media ever did their job, none of the shysters involved would ever be able to show their heads in public again.

The threat of an asteroid striking Earth is pretty scary — and not just in all the ways Hollywood movies have depicted — but human technology has reached a point where it might actually be possible for us to prevent an asteroid impact if we see one headed our way.

A multi-wavelength study of a pair of colliding galaxies has revealed the cause of a supermassive black hole’s case of ‘indigestion’. Results will be presented by Dr. Hayden Rampadarath at the National Astronomy Meeting at the University of Hull.

We might have to rethink the classic idea of a plesiosaur swimming with a bent neck. Pernille V. Troelsen, a Ph.D. student at Liverpool John Moores University, UK, simulated plesiosaur locomotion with 3D models and found that it would have been much easier for them to swim with a straight neck, and that’s likely how they moved around.

Researchers at the University of Manchester have discovered a new species of yeast that could help brewers create better lager.

Penn State climate scientist, Michael ‘hockey stick’ Mann commits contempt of court in the ‘climate science trial of the century.’ Prominent alarmist shockingly defies judge and refuses to surrender data for open court examination. Only possible outcome: Mann’s humiliation, defeat and likely criminal investigation in the U.S.

Geological heat flow is fueling bottom melting and associated cracks across West Antarctica’s Larsen Ice Shelf, having little to do with man-made global warming. Significant amounts of high-quality data and relevant geological observations support this revelation, given historical and current geological mapping efforts done in Antarctica.

Around A.D. 79, Roman author Pliny the Elder wrote in his Naturalis Historia that concrete structures in harbors, exposed to the constant assault of the saltwater waves, become “a single stone mass, impregnable to the waves and every day stronger.”

He wasn’t exaggerating. While modern marine concrete structures crumble within decades, 2,000-year-old Roman piers and breakwaters endure to this day and are stronger now than when they were first constructed.

I can understand when pop-scientists like Bill Nye spout scientific silliness. But complete nonsense coming from Stephen Hawking? Really?

In this video, Stephen Hawking claims that Trump withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Accord could lead to the Earth being pushed past a tipping point, with Venus-like 250 deg. C temperatures and sulfuric acid rain.