ScienceBlogs Channel Photos, Week of Dec. 17-23

We bring you, as always, the large-scale versions of this week's channel photos.

(Have a photo you'd like to send in? Email it to photos@scienceblogs.com, or assign the tag "sbhomepage" to one of your photos on Flickr. Note: be sure to assign your photo an "attribution only" or "share and share alike" Creative Commons license so that we can use it.)

First photo here, the rest below the fold.

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Life Science. From Flickr, by suneko



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Physical Science: Jupiter and its moon Io. From NASA, via pingnews.com

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Environment: Oil-covered ruddy duck in Oakland, CA, 11/11/07. From Flickr, via wolfpix

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Humanities & Social Science. From Flickr, by Nictalopen

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Education & Careers. From Flickr, by Hey Paul

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Politics. From Flickr, by Esparta

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Medicine & Health. From Flickr, by Hamed Saber

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Brain & Behavior: Brainbow. Different neurons are tagged with different colors. By Livet et al/PA Wire, via ogglog

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Technology. From Flickr, by En Syn

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