This picture of Hurricane Ike from earlier today was downlinked by the crew of the International Space Station, flying 220 statute miles above Earth.

Fans of classical music and jazz are creative, pop lovers are hardworking and, despite the stereotypes, heavy metal listeners are gentle, creative types who are at ease with themselves.

Musical tastes and personality type are closely related, according to a study of more than 36,000 people from around the world. The research, which was carried out by Professor Adrian North of Heriot-Watt University, is said to be the largest such study

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Mariners have long told of nighttime events in which the ocean glows brightly for many miles. A vast region of luminescence in the Indian Ocean was photographed by satellite. Such events are chronicled in Doomwatch Legacy by Sunstroke author David Kagan.

Scientists on Wednesday said they had discovered deep-sea viruses to be an unexpectedly potent driver of the so-called carbon cycle that sustains oceanic life and helps dampen global warming.

The team behind NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is celebrating the orbiting observatory's fifth birthday with a glittering, multigenerational picture of a star-forming region.

A lost world has been found in Antarctica,preserved just the way it was when it was frozen in time some 14 million years ago.The fossils of plants and animals high in the mountains is an extremely rare find in the continent.A team working in an ice-free

Scientists have identified the world's smallest snake -- a reptile about 4 inches (10 cm) long and as thin as spaghetti that was found lurking under a rock on the Caribbean island of Barbados.

Lightning sparks considerable confusion among scientists, who are baffled by it's link to X-rays. They want to determine whether lightning strikes to aircraft could endanger passengers. First noted by Sunstroke author David Kagan in Doomwatch Legacy.