Scientists have developed a vaccine for the so-called "cruise ship virus" using tobacco plants.

Charles Arntzen, a plant researcher with Arizona State University, said in a statement at the American Chemical Society conference in Washington, D.C. Tuesday, that the vaccine could be administered every 12 to 18 months by a nasal-delivery system.

U.S. astronomers have detected a cloud of storm hovering above the Saturn moon Titan's arid equator.

The findings published in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature was made possible through the telescope at the Gemini North Observatory, located atop the Mauna Kea mountain in Hawaii. Astronomers saw the two-million-square-mile storm clouds in April 2008.

The canals of Mars may be a 19th Century myth, but the snow is for real.

Physicists studying data from the Mars Phoenix Lander that landed in the planet's arctic zone last year say water ice crystals were detected during the final days of the mission.

The Arizona town of Cave Creek settled a tie election using a deck of cards to pick the winner of a seat on its governing council.

Cave Creek voters placed votes in equal numbers for an empty seat on the town's seven-member council, with 660 votes each going to Thomas McGuire, 64, and Adam Trenk, 25, the New York Times reported.

Have you hear the one about the scientist who set out to alleviate diseases associated with menopause and found a solution for world hunger? No, really.

Scientist Loretta Mayer, a researcher at Northern Arizona University, along with colleagues there and at the University of Arizona, discovered a a nontoxic chemical technology causes infertility in rats.