22 February 2013
Best science and technology pictures of the week
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- Sky at night
- The entries for CIWEM's Environmental Photographer of the Year were announced, including this picture of the Milky Way and light pollution in Namibia. (Copyright: Florian Breuer)
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- Sleepy bear
- Vets inspect an anaesthetised five-year-old female Asiatic black bear in quarantine at the Mandai Zoological Garden in Singapore. (Copyright: Getty Images)
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- Flying circus
- Aircraft leave colourful smoke trails as they participate in a military show in Abu Dhabi (Copyright: Getty Images)
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- Mercury in colour
- Nasa scientists created a high-resolution map of Mercury from thousands of images acquired by the Messenger probe during its first year in orbit. (Copyright: Nasa)
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- Blood spot
- Schistosomes have adult stem cells, reports Nature, which could explain why these parasitic worms persist so long in humans,. (Credit: Jim Collins, Ana Vieira and Phillip Newmark)
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- Kilometre-high club
- The builder of The Shard in London announced plans for the 1,000-m-high Kingdom Tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, which will be the world's tallest skyscraper. (Copyright: Mace/PA)
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- Clean-up operation
- US marine going through a Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and High Explosive training drill – part of the annual Cobra Gold military exercise. (Copyright: Getty Images)
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- Time for take off
- Workers load part of the Swiss sun-powered aircraft Solar Impulse into a cargo plane en route to San Francisco for a series of flights across America. (Copyright: Getty Images)
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- Lasting memory
- Europe's oldest chimpanzee Jojo, which died at 60, is displayed mounted at the Museum-Aquarium in Nancy, France, almost one year after its death. (Copyright: Getty Images)
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- Doubled over
- Participants perform some eye-watering exercises during the first session of the World Yoga Conference in Jammu. (Copyright: Getty Images)
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Russian meteor, extreme weather and a turtle with artificial fins
Cosmic storms, the first bionic man and how to clean a oil-covered bird
Birth of stars, life at sub-zero temperatures and micro-living in the city
Pollution from space, active volcanoes and a robot restaurant
Amazing Lego sculptures, freakish weather… and Big Bird
Gruesome tools, environmental disasters and intimate views from space.
Christmas treats and the end of the world
Bathing snow monkeys, a tweeting pope and elephant dung coffee.
Architectural giants and a new way of seeing the Moon
Red pandas, Saturn and Nature’s unstoppable forces
The world's largest bloom, the world's largest aquarium and the world's fastest sailing boat
Venice under water, a total eclipse and a pedestrian-avoiding car
Space shuttle, Baumgartner and Hurricane Sandy
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A year in space
The year in technology
A year of discovery
People of the year
The year in weather
The year in wildlife
Weird and wonderful
Places
New frontiers
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