This year's winners include: a tool to identify new disease strains, an artificial hand, a solar-powered base station for mobile phones and paper-thin flexible speakers
An analysis of blogosphere chatter reveals which Fortune 500 chiefs garnered the most buzz this year.
Well this seems to be the tradition at this time of the year to look back at your best of posts of the previous year. In fact its not a bad idea because
"A Serious Man" and "Inglourious Basterds" are among the films that topped Tom Charity's 2009 list.
Now that video game sales have eclipsed Hollywood box office revenues, you can bet your bitmaps that some extraordinarily good games were released in 2009. Here's our look at the best, grouped by genre.
Use of capital punishment by states continues its steady decline, with fewer death sentences handed down in 2009 than any year since the death penalty was reinstated by the Supreme Court in 1976.
