Artist's rendering of a woolly mammoth family. (Credit: iStockphoto/KIM FREITAS)
Use your loaf: Making bread was surely one of humankind's first chemistry experiments.
From CNET:
Sea Lion Diver: This mine stands no chance against Navy-trained sea lions BARCROFT
Material stolen from a young star (blue) forms a disc (red) around a black hole or neutron star in this illustration of the system Cygnus X-3. Strong flares occasionally erupt from this disc (Illustration: Walter Feimer/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Unlike manned police helicopters, which can fly for a maximum of a few hours, the UAS have the capability to stay in the air for up to 15 hours
Photo: Sellafield nuclear plant has the world's largest store of separated plutonium
Ladybug. Are ladybugs being overtaken by wasps? (Credit: iStockphoto/Klemens Wolf)
Population is at the root of the problem because more people means more greenhouse gases.
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Redstone Arsenal Base
Allen Hills Meteorite Thar be life? NASA 
Lack of incentive to invest in more uranium mines
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Photo: The effect was shown in silicon, the standby of the semiconductor industry
Computer rendering of E. coli bacteria. A newly developed E. coli strain is capable of efficiently producing unnatural polymers, through a one-step fermentation process. (Credit: iStockphoto/Sebastian Kaulitzki)
Eastern wild turkeys. Credit: Maslowski/National Wild Turkey Federation
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From Daily Tech:
Image: Bladder control: Manipulating a magnetic fluid on top of the researchers' "sensor tile" (top) offers a novel way to control a computer. The interface can be used to sculpt virtual shapes (bottom). Credit: Microsoft 
Even nonalcoholic red wine can offer the oral health benefits to consumers. iStockPhoto
This schematic shows the structure of the new material, Xe(H2)7. Freely rotating hydrogen molecules (red dumbbells) surround xenon atoms (yellow). (Credit: Image courtesy of Nature Chemistry)
Batteries made of paper may power electronics in the future, researchers say. Shown are images from an experimental paper-based battery. Credit: The American Chemical Society.
From National Geographic:
From The Next Big Future:There are some rare individuals with IQs in the 200's and their brains are not larger than regular people.
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Image: Defense mechanism: Researchers creating a new vaccine against H1N1 hope to harness the power of the immune system's dendritic cells (one such cell is shown above in blue), which are responsible for directing the body's immune response. Credit: Oliver Schwartz, Institute Pasteur / Science Photo Library 
(Credit: PG&E) If you need more evidence that energy storage is much more than lithium ion batteries, take a look at the latest smart-grid utility storage projects.
The Department of Energy on Tuesday announced that $620 million in stimulus funding is going to 32 smart-grid programs, which will be coupled with another $1 billion in private money. A total of $770 million from government and industry sources in the next few years will go to energy storage, giving a number of storage technologies a dose of real-world experience. (See this PDF for details.)
In this photo taken aboard the International Space Station in 2001, cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin (left) and astronaut Frank L. Culbertson smile before their Thanksgiving meal. Their food is taped down to prevent it from floating away. NASA
Ospreys have talons that are large, highly curved and nearly uniform, especially suited for catching fish. This osprey snatched a fish from the Firehole River in Yellowstone National Park. (Credit: MSU photo by Kelly Gorham)
Wing Commander Andy Green poses today in front of a three-quarter scale model of the front section of the Bloodhound SSC. Wg Cdr Green will be the one at the helm of the 1,000mph vehicle
There are no bottles in these boxes of wine -- just wine and the plastic pouch that holds it. Boxing instead of bottling wine saves half the shipping weight (and associated carbon emissions) and keeps the product fresher longer. Bota Box
Space rock (Image: S. Chatterjee/J.M.Cordes/Palomar Observatory)
Charles Darwin Photo: PA English Heritage wants anyone who might know of the whereabouts of Darwin's 'Galapagos notebook' to come forward.
It is launching the appeal today to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species.
To mark the anniversary, English Heritage is also publishing online Darwin's 14 other notebooks from his time aboard HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836.
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From The BBC:
Laura Colgin is a postdoctoral fellow at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology's Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Centre for the Biology of Memory. (Credit: Image courtesy of The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU))
PRIMITIVE ENERGY: With no electricity, many people in Third World countries cook their food over wood fires. ISTOCKPHOTO/DORINS
NASA's Martian Rocket Plane courtesy of NASA 
Dark forces at work (Image: Andy Martin)
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