Temperature distribution within Venus and local mobilization at the surface. (Credit: DLR)
Among the many Twitter pages found to be spreading a worm this morning was the Whitehouse. (Credit: Websense Labs)
Charlton Heston as Moses in Cecil B DeMille's film The Ten Commandments (1956). Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/Paramount
A lunar topographic map of the Moon Photo: NASA 
Work It As its brother the HRP-2 looks on in the background, Japan's new humanoid robot, HRP-4, shows off its moves. Kawada Industries via YouTube 
Ukrainian First Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Klyuyev. © RIA Novosti. Grigoriy Vasilenko
The first Earth-like exoplanet discovery could be made in less than a year
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From Science Daily:
The initial object imaged through a layer of white paint (A) was a 32-pixel by 32-pixel image of a flower; the image was reconstructed with a new technique (B), matching the original by roughly 94.5 percent. Credit: Sylvain Gigan et al.
Photo: Tablet contender: Samsung's Galaxy Tab runs the Android operating system and is meant to go head to head with Apple's iPad. Credit: Technology Review 
In demand: The U.S. Army has ordered three new airships to be built and fitted with high-tech surveillance equipment so they can be used in Afghanistan
The unearthed bones and artifacts indicate that when the violence took place, men, women and children were tortured, disemboweled, killed and often hacked to bits. Getty Images
The Linac 2 (Linear Accelerator 2) is pictured at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Meyrin near Geneva October 16, 2008. Credit: Reuters/Denis Balibouse
Image: People who think more about their decisions have more brain cells in their frontal lobes
Island-specific strains of the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), which infects monkeys such as the Bioko Drill, revealed the virus has been around thousands of years longer than previously thought. Credit: Preston Marx, Tulane University
This schematic shows enthalpy curves sketched for the liquid, crystalline and amorphous phases of a new class of nanomaterials called "BEANs" for Binary Eutectic-Alloy Nanostructures. (Credit: Image courtesy of Daryl Chrzan)
Oh, It Hurts Some astronauts report losing their fingernails on spacewalks because of bulky gloves that cut off circulation and chafe against their hands. To avoid this inconvenience, a couple astronauts have taken to ripping off their own fingernails before reaching orbit. NASA 
The 270ft-long Skylon space plane will be able to take passengers into space at a fraction of the current cost
From The New Scientist:
Proposals put before the Internet Governance Forum would enshrine in law the principles of free speech and net neutrality for the web Photo: ALAMY 
A suit port allows astronauts to be on the surface within a few minutes
Researchers have found that deleting the RGS14 gene in mice can make them smarter by unlocking a mysterious region of the brain considered to be relatively inflexible. (Credit: iStockphoto)
In the movie 'Avatar,' unobtainium is a rare, precious element that triggers an interspecies war. Credit: Twentieth Century Fox
An image of the ozone hole above Antarctica in 2010, as recorded by NASA's daily Ozone Hole Watch survey. Credit: NASA/Ozone Hole Watch
Photo: Jean-Marie Hullot
Photo Credit: NASA/TRACE
A setting last quarter crescent moon and the thin line of Earth's atmosphere are photographed by an Expedition 24 crew member as the International Space Station passes over central Asia on Sept. 4th, 2010. (NASA)
Possible evidence for the rapid reversal was in rocks formed from lava flows in Nevada's Sheep Creek Range. Credit: Scott Bogue
From the Danger Room:
Messy wires and cables will soon be a thing of the past Photo: CORBIS 
Many newspapers have released their own iPad apps, such as ths one from the Wall Street Journal. According to rumors, Apple aims to supplement those apps with an iTunes-based newspaper subscription service. News Corp.
The beach near where Mr Newton was last seen is located on the small island where the 1987 Jaws film was partially filmed Photo: ALAMY 
POCKMARKSLava-smoothed areas, or maria, like Oceanus Procellarum (right) and more heavily cratered lunar highlands appear in stark contrast in new laser measurements of the lunar surface. NASA/LRO/LOLA/GSFC, MIT, Brown
LAURENCE KESTERSON / Staff Photographer
A NASA Astronaut in space challenges earthlings to a chess match Photo: PHOTOSHOT/NASA 
