From CNET:
From The Telegraph:
A Nasa TV grab shows the Expedition 22 crew getting into the
Image: Glass power: Equipment at Applied Materials’s R&D center in Xi’an, China, processes glass panels 5.7 square meters to make solar cells. Credit: Applied Materials 
Mapping the internet as it goes truly global (Image: Matthew Hurst/SPL) 
A first glimpse at the data coming down from Europe's Goce satellite
This is a neuron. (Credit: Sourav Banerjee)
From Live Science:
Travellers board a high-speed train which heads to Guangzhou
Cloud crowd: Some 4,000 servers hum at IBM’s cloud computing center in San Jose, CA. 
On the lookout for intelligent signals from the stars (Image: Louie Psihoyos/Corbis) 
A combination photo shows (top) a view of the damage near Baiturrahman mosque December 27, 2004, the day after a tsunami hit the Indonesian city of Banda Aceh, and (bottom) an Acehnese man collecting grass for his goat in the same area, December 4, 2009. (Reuters)
Image: Tim Tadder / Corbis
From The BBC:
Amazon's second-generation Kindle
Glucose molecular model. (Credit: iStockphoto/Martin McCarthy)
Terry Tickhill (light hat) and Eileen McSaveney (red headband) use a hand augur to drill Lake Vanda, Wright Valley, Antarctica during the 1969-1970 field season. Water collected during this effort was used to date the lake. The green tent in the background was of the same type as the field crew used for housing during their work in Wright Valley. Credit: Lois Jones
A monitor at Tradeworx’s offices keeps track of the net trading operations during the day. It generally ticks up. Credit: Steve Moors 
In a recent study, a third of subjects claimed to feel real pain in the same
T-rays can offer a safer, more effective alternative to current airport screeners
Representative thin crystalline-silicon photovoltaic cells -- these are from 14 to 20 micrometers thick and 0.25 to 1 millimeter across. (Credit: Image by Murat Okandan)
The eSolar plant in the Mojave Desert generates enough electricity to power 4,000 homes
From Technology Review:
Professor Sue Hartley (right) supports volunteer Adam after he eats a Naga chilli
Skeleton key: the 47 million-year-old remains of 'Ida' are the most complete fossil of a primate ever found. The young female specimen was found in Germany. AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Artist's rendition of a brown dwarf and its moon orbiting a triple star system. (Credit: NASA)
It wasn't until 1809 that Santa Clause got fat, and by the late 1800s he was wearing the full red suit with the fur trim and leather boots. Image credit: stockxpert
From CNET:Citigroup denies it, but its Citibank unit was reportedly robbed of tens of millions of dollars, the victim of a cyberattack by members of a Russian criminal gang, says Tuesday's Wall Steet Journal (subscription required).
The attack was discovered this past summer, says the Journal, but investigators for the FBI and National Security Agency believe it could have happened months or a year prior. The two agencies have reportedly shared information with the Department of Homeland Security and Citigroup to defend against the attack. The investigation is supposedly ongoing, with no word on whether or not any of the stolen money has been found.
The Cyborg Leg It helps perfectly healthy runners run 30 percent more efficiently.
Influencing the weather (Image: J.C Dahlig/Bereau of Reclamation)
Green crude from oil processed from algae
The organ at Christ Church, Episcopal, in Rochester. Stewart Cairns for The New York Times
A Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-17 space ship, carrying a new crew to the international space station (ISS), lifts off from the Russian leased Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Monday, Dec. 21, 2009. The Soyuz TMA-17's three astronauts will take the orbiting laboratory's permanent crew to five following the early-hours launch, the first-ever blastoff of a Soyuz rocket on a winter night.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
From The Telegraph:
U.S. soldiers disfigured in combat will now be able to get face transplants
Stone tools from the Benot Ya'aqov arah.
From Live Science:
Better Connectivity A unit-level "cloud" will allow soldiers in the field to communicate vertically up the chain of command, as well as with other ground and air units operating nearby for seamless sharing of intel, orders, and other data. U.S. Army 
Illuminating the "dark matter" of the genome
From Apple Insider:
Members of a suburban Boston book group. Mary Knox Merrill / Staff
