The Big Picture offers, well, really big pictures

The Big Picture section of the Boston Globe's Boston.com offers truly awesome high resolution photographs from the news, mostly drawn from the Associated Press. This photo of a solar flare was released by Nasa Earth Observatory on June 7, 2011 and taken from Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory.

The Brain: Cognitive Daily News

"Cognitive Daily reports nearly every day on fascinating peer-reviewed developments in cognition from the most respected scientists in the field....The research isn't dumbed down, but it's explained in language that everyone can understand, with clear illustrations and references to the original research." -- from the website. <http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/>