Cost of solar power dropping

Article on Green Inc. blog from the NY Times today discusses the fact that solar power has been dropping significantly over the past decade, down ~30% in 2008 from 1998.

new fossil find

This new beast is another pterosaur, a flying reptile that lived in the Mesozoic Era during the time of the dinosaurs (but not technically a dinosaur).  article in BBC News 

new NASA probe lands on Moon

The AP reports today that NASAs recent probe to the moon has landed successfully.  The goal of the probe is to determine whether ice is present at the moon's southern pole.