Thanks to the American Association for the Advancement of Science for permission to place these images on my Web site Each week I look forward with great.

Thanks to the American Association for the Advancement of Science for permission to place these images on my Web site

Each week I look forward with great anticipation to the arrival of my copy of Science. My first impression, of course, is its cover, many of which are striking, some stunning. To enable me to enjoy them from time to time, I have

assembled some of those images on Power Point. I make no claim that they are the best of the year, only that they caught my eye immediately and still do. Perhaps you too will enjoy them.

4 January 2008

Dark and visible matter in the cosmos Image: Shigemi Numazawa

1 February 2008

Model of the topographical structure of zeolite Model creation: Kelly Harvey and Scott Harvey

8 February 2008

The Ginza area of Tokyo in 2006Photo: Getty Images

15 February 2008

Interaction of an excess electron with a hydrogen-bonded HCl complex Illustration: Marciej Haranczyk

7 March 2008

Vandalism or art? By guerilla artist Bansky

14 March 2008

Tomato domestication and selection Image: Kelly Krause; photos Esther van der Knapp

21 March 2008

Clusters of pathogenic bacterium visualized by scanning electron microscopy Image: Annie Cavanagh

28 March 2008

Gene regulation in a eukaryotic cell envisioned as a video game Illustration: Carin L. Cain

2 May 2008

Graphic representation of an integrated quantum optics chip Image: W. Amery

6 June 2008

Terra cotta mask from 5000-year-old Indus civilization Image: J. M. Kenoyer Image: J. M. Kenoyer

20 June 2008

False-color image of a section of the Semarkona meteoriteImage: Jeffrey Grossman

18 July 2008

Artist’s conception of penicillin and some bacteriaImage: Chris Bickel

8 August2008

Simulation of a vesicle interacting with a lipid bilayerImage: Wataru Shinoda and Mike Klein

5 September 2008

Mammalian fatty acid synthaseImage: Marc Leibundgut and Timm Maier

12 September 2008

Books written before the computer era are being digitalized for preservation Photo: Joshua Franzos.

26 September 2008

Boulders and roots, or spores and hyphae? Image: Coleen Champ, with micrographs by Dennis Kunkel

24 October 2008

Surface of sun shows rapidly changing patterns due to convection Image: Thomas Berger

28 November 2008

Two direct detections of extrasolar planet candidatesImages: Christian Marois and Paul Kalas

12 December 2008

Simulation of two cells that have been laser-ablatedImage: Pawwel Krupinski