ScienceBlogs Channel Photos, Week of Dec. 3-9

We hereby present to you: 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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Autumn maple leaf veins, with the rest of the leaf removed by a semiconductor etch. From Flickr, by jurvetson



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From Wikimedia Commons, by Luc Viatour

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Biofuels. From Flickr, by jurvetson

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From Flickr, by Esparta

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From Flickr, by clgregor

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Satellite image of Hurricane Katrina on August 28, 2005. From Flickr, by GISuser.com

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From Flickr, by Charlie bosmore

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From Flickr, by Liz Henry

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Nude photography. From Flickr, by jurvetson

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