Pictures of the Week – (January 29 – February 4, 2010) – TIME.

Russian police kill al Qaeda’s co-founder in the Caucasus – The Long War Journal.

Walk into your local boutique coffee shop and you will be met with lists and lists of specialty drinks. What do they mean? What do they contain? Their French or Italian names usually add to the confusion. Here is a menu of those seemingly endless variations on espresso specialty drinks:

Espresso Drink Menu: Ordering Lattes, Capuccinos and Macchiatos.

Welcome to Hell: Sand Demons of Dante’s Inferno [49 Pics] .

In search of the Maya, Wild Chronicles and a group of explorers from National Geographic enter the mouth of the underworld, traveling deep into the dark caves of Belize. After flourishing for thousands of years, the Maya civilization mysteriously disappeared. Find new clues that reveal how these ancient people lived – and died.

Creepy Mayan Underworld.

The Beatles In 1957.

Potential evolutionary role for same-sex attraction.

Computers that use light instead of electricity? First germanium laser created.

Google Earth aerial images show Second World War devastation – .

New online Shakespeare game becomes internet hit .

Butterflies hitch a lift on fast winds to migrate .

Scientists design world’s most accurate clock – .

The Complete History Of Pandora, According To Avatar’s Designers – Avatar – io9.

First breath: Earth’s billion-year struggle for oxygen – environment – 05 February 2010 – New Scientist.