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• Glaucocystis, a primitive microscopic alga. Lots of venture capital is flooding into enterprises seeking to make biofuel from algae, which are plentiful and easy to grow.
• This artist's concept shows a magnetic portal connecting Earth's magnetic field connecting to the sun's. The spacecraft is on hand to measure the high-energy particles and fields flowing through the portal.
• Space shuttle Endeavour stands poised for space soon after being moved to Launch Pad 39A for the launch of STS-126 on Nov. 14, 2008.
• This little brown bat, found in a cave in New York, is infected with a Geomyces fungus that has coated its muzzle, ears and wings white. Biologists have discovered how the deadly fungus is spreading outward from its origin in east-central New York into other areas.
• Former French presidential candidate Segolene Royal, who narrowly lost the 2007 election to current President Nicolas Sarkozy. A new study finds that physical attractiveness is as important to a female politician's career as her competence; for male politicians, looks don't seem to matter.
• In this undated photo supplied by the Karori Sanctuary, an adult tuatara lizard is seen basking on a tree stump at the Karori Sanctuary in Wellington, New Zealand. Conservation staff at Wellington's Karori Sanctuary have found what is almost certainly the first confirmed tuatara nest on mainland New Zealand in over 200 years. The discovery came during routine maintenance work near the Sanctuary's unique mammal-proof fence, when staff uncovered the four ping-pong ball sized leathery white eggs.
• A pair of interacting galaxies called Arp 147 photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on the orbiting observatory's first day of operation after a week and a half of down time for reprogramming.
• Genetic material from the Iceman mummy suggests this Neolithic man has no modern-day relatives on his mom's side of the family.
• Oct. 26: Archaeologist Yossi Garfinkel displays a ceramic shard bearing what may be a Hebrew inscription at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The ceramic shard, containing five lines of faded characters written 3,000 years ago at the time of the Old Testament's King David, was found in the ruins of an ancient fortified town south of Jerusalem and is the oldest Hebrew inscription ever discovered, according to Garfinkel. Other experts aren't sure whether it's Hebrew or another closely related Caananite dialect of the period.
• This undated handout photo provided by NASA, taken in October by the Messenger space probe, shows a portion of Mercury. Earth's first nearly full look at Mercury reveals that the tiny lifeless planet took a far greater role in in shaping itself than scientists had thought with volcanoes spewing 'mysterious dark blue material.'
• A forest elephant examines the bones of another elephant that may have been killed by a poacher. Researchers find that elephants have learned to stay far away from roads, which poachers use. As more roads are driven into the Congo forest, it leaves elephants with less and less habitable space.
• Psychologist Daniela Niesta holds an image used in a study that compared men's rating of attractiveness of a woman depending on whether she was wearing blue or red. Men were found to be willing to spend more money on a woman even if her photo was ringed by a red rather than a gray frame.
• Diamonds such as these grown in the laboratory using a chemical vapor deposition process can be treated by a new high temperature, low pressure method to improve their color and optical clarity.
• This artist's conception shows the closest known planetary system, Epsilon Eridani, surrounded by two asteroid belts (inner belt shown as yellowish ring and outer belt seen in the foreground) as well as possible planets and an outer ring (see comets originating from the outer ring in the upper right corner).
• Spacesuit engineer Dustin Gohmert drives NASA's new lunar truck prototype through the moon-like craters of Johnson Space Center's Lunar Yard. The lunar truck was built to make such off roading easy, with six wheels that can be steered independently in any direction. In addition, the steering center can turn a full 360 degree, giving the driver a good view of what's ahead, no matter which way the wheels are pointing.
• A family of Heterodontosaurs, an early omnivorous dinosaur in which adults had teeth adapted to eating both plants and animals. New finds indicate junevile Heterodontosaurs had fangs and could also eat insects.
• Ripening bananas exhibit intense blue luminescence under UV light. Their luminescence arises from fluorescent chlorophyll catabolites which accumulate in the banana peels during ripening; their natural further conversion to nonfluorescent catabolites is specifically inhibited by a previously unrecognized chemical modification.
• Stephen Hawking during a news conference in Potsdam, Germany in a July 1999 file photo. The famed astrophysicist and author of 'A Brief History of Time' announced that he would be stepping down from his chair as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University.
• Oct. 9: An eternal reef is lowered into the Chesapeake Bay from a crane during a memorial service in Middle River, Md. The burial service is one of a growing number of funeral alternatives. Cremated remains are mixed into concrete used to make so-called reef balls that it places at sites along the East Coast, a service marketed as an environmentally friendly and less-expensive alternative to traditional burials.
• An artist's conception of a Bloodhound SSC, a rocket-powered British race car that its backers hope will be able to reach 1,000 mph.

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