Himalayan glaciers not melting because of climate change, report finds
Sat 29 Jan 2011, 07 PM / coResearchers have discovered that contrary to popular belief half of the ice flows in the Karakoram range of the mountains are actually growing rather than shrinking. The discovery adds a new twist to the row over whether global warming is causing the world's highest mountain range to lose its ice ...
Hidden Fractals Suggest Answer to Ancient Math Problem
Researchers have found a fractal pattern underlying everyday math. In the process, they’ve discovered a way to calculate partition numbers, a challenge that’s stymied mathematicians for centuries. Partition numbers track the different ways an integer can be divvied up. The number 3, for example, has three unique partitions: 3, 2 ...
Facebook awarded over $360 million damages against spammer
announced that this week a federal court has awarded the firm a whopping $360,500,000 in statutory damages and issued a permanent injunction against spammer Philip Porembski. US district court judge Jeremy Fogel made the judgement against Porembski, who ran a firm called PP Web Services. Porembski was alleged to have ...
Sony unveils NGP - successor to PSP handheld console
Sony Computer Entertainment's Shuhei Yoshida and Kaz Hirai demonstrate the NGP's features at the company's strategy briefing event in Tokyo. Sony has unveiled its new handheld games console the PSP 2. At a special event ...
CBI opposes bail application of nine arrested in Malegaon blast
CBI opposes bail application of nine arrested in Malegaon blast Not willing to give the Malegaon 2006 blast case accused a clean chit as yet, the CBI on Friday opposed the bail application saying that ...
Administration of justice system requires improvement from within : ...
LONDON, Jan 29 (APP)- Founder of Minhaj-ul-Quran International Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri speaking at the World Economic Forum in Swiss resort town of Davos has underscored promoting of inter-faith harmony for tackling terrorism. This year international ...