The suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees at an outpost in southeastern Afghanistan had been invited onto the base and was not searched, the AP has learned.[...] Click below to read the full story from the source… AP: Afghan bomber not searched

Is there still room in your heart for eight more unassuming bits of Xmas? We hoped you’d say yes. See, 8-bit Xmas 2009 is an all-new NES cart full of festive LEDs and an original multiplayer snowball fight NES game. It sells for $43, but for $5 more you can get a personalized title screen [...]

Above: Fluorescent minerals via Wikimedia Commons If you enjoyed the astonishing fluorescent landscapes in Avatar (or plan to soon), I compiled a few lovely videos of fluorescent phenomena from right here on Earth.V 115 fluorescence of various materials 1 – Fluoreszenz (via Netexperimente) Bill’s Fluorescent Rock and Mineral Collection (via Philovideo) – start at 5:30 [...]

<< previous image | next image >> With so many incredible scientific advances and discoveries this year, Wired Science had a tough time choosing which 10 were the biggest. So, we went with the ones that stood out for us. From the amazing collective power of jellyfish, to a new human ancestor, to a cancer-detecting breathalyzer test, [...]

The Oxford Dictionary may have chosen “unfriend” as word of the year, but what else was in our collective lexicon in 2009? A Words of the Year list commissioned by the Oxford University Press included a number of words from our familiar technosocial corner, according to the Telegraph. “Tweetup,” “hashtag,” “freemium,” “paywall,” “unfriend” and “tag [...]