Composite drug-releasing fibers used as basic elements of scaffolding for tissue and bone regeneration. (Credit: AFTAU)
Largest and smallest species of eyelid geckos appear here in proportion, though somewhat smaller than life size. Credit: Zuzana Starostová & Lukáš Kratochvíl
Heavy Artillery: U.S. Marines clean an M1A1 Abrams main battle tank at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif. Bridges made from recycled plastic are not only about to support the weight of this tank, but also can provide a cost-effective alternative to steel and concrete construction. Lance Cpl. Kelsey J. Green/U.S. Marine Corps
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The cost of solar panels dropped almost in half in the last year in Germany.
Read more ....In the last year — solar panel prices dropped to $2.10 a watt from about $4.10 in Germany — and only about half the global manufacturing capacity is being used, said Steve O'Rouke, an analyst with Deutsche Bank.
"We've seen an awful lot of angst and difficulty," O'Rouke said. "You have to expect some companies to go out of business."
Deutsche Bank is forecasting a structural over-supply in the market until at least 2011.
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SHIP TRACKS: Could ships spraying sea mist to boost cloud reflectivity cure climate change? Already, ship tracks can be picked out in marine clouds, as pictured here, thanks to the interaction of ships' exhaust and water vapor in the atmosphere. Courtesy NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL, MISR Team.
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Super-Concrete Let's see if they can break this Air Force Office of Scientific Research 
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M63: The Sunflower Galaxy. (Credit: Satoshi Miyazaki (NAOJ), Suprime-Cam, Subaru Telescope, NOAJ)
Mars colonists could use caves for protection from potentially deadly cosmic rays streaming down from space. (NASA / October 24, 2009)
Origin Story. A new study challenges the giant impact hypothesis, which suggested the moon formed from a cosmic collision. NASA
President Obama speaking on clean energy at MIT on Friday.
NASA artwork traces each phase of a future mission to the moon and back.
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Did a comet impact really kill off megafauna such as the mammoth,
Phones for Warfighters U.S. Army/Tech. Sgt. Cohen A. Young 
Soybean sprouts struggling in dry conditions. Biologists have now solved the structure of a critical molecule that helps plants survive during droughts. (Credit: iStockphoto/Matt Niebuhr)
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Photo: Monkey think, monkey do: By translating electrical signals from a monkey’s brain into muscle contractions via implanted electrodes, an animal with a paralyzed arm was able to grasp a ball. Credit: Christian Ethier, Lee Miller 
The galaxy cluster is a billion light years further from earth than any other discovered.
An Iberian wolf jumps a fence intent on his dinner in this stunning
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Bugging Out: Astronauts test a prototype of a six-legged lunar buggy
What keeps a woman looking young?
Tomato seeds exposed to carbon nanotubes (right) sprouted and grew faster than unexposed seeds (left).
Image credit: Patrick Cullis, National Science FoundationThe middle of the world's most remote and inhospitable continent may not seem like an ideal place to conduct complicated scientific research, but this photo shows how the South Pole offers advantages that astronomers and other researchers just can't find anywhere else.
The photo, captured above the new elevated station at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in July 2009, is a 20-minute exposure revealing the southern celestial axis — the white cloudy streak is the Milky Way.
Photo: Karl says his portable geothermal generator can power up to 250 average U.S. homes. 
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The Ares I-X rocket sits atop launch pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Tuesday. (NASA handout/Reuters) 
Photo: Roast of the town: Many would prefer to use gravy granules rather than risk ruining a traditional British dinner
Splashlight; Courtesy of Broadway Video Enterprises and NBC Studios, Inc. (SNL icon)
The Asteroid Belt, found between Jupiter and Mars, may have been the source of ammunition for the Late Heavy Bombardment. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltch/T.Pyle
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An artist's impression of the swirling accretion disc surrounding a black hole.
Swarming Ladies. Ladybugs are seen on cars in Chatham, Ill., Oct. 21, 2009. Around much of the country,legions of Asian lady beetles are making their seasonal appearance. AP Photo/Seth Perlman 
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Tick Tock Certain neurons in the striatum and prefrontal cortex fire at certain intervals, which MIT researchers have determined to be an internal clock time-stamping sensory experiences for memory just as a digital camera might time-stamp a photo file. 
Glacier-fed Lake Oberaar in the Bernese Alps, Switzerland.
This photo, taken with a scanning electron microscope, shows one an iron-oxide sphere of pollution produced by combustion, and collected with a double-sided tape collector. Credit: Rachel Housen, Whatcom Middle School/Bellingham High School
