Benoit Mandelbrot died on 14 October 2010 in a hospice in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of 85. His name is synonymous with the study of fractals, a term he himself coined in the 1970s.…

ZURICH, October 20, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- In the last three months, I have learned so much about different cultures, languages and styles of doing business, says Anna Bulycheva, the Global Intern 2010…

FLORHAM PARK, New Jersey, October 20, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Crossing , a leading global IP solutions provider, today announced it has expanded its premier IP-based global network to data center…

Leopards have but tigers have stripes.  Why the difference?   British Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling, author of "The Jungle Book" and other stories, suggested the difference was because the…

Emerson said “A man is what he thinks about all day long…….”. What controls our thought process? We can have 9 types of thoughts as are the “ rasa”. Some of the thoughts could be of Love, hate,…

You can donate money to help schoolchildren throughout the year, but if you participate in the ocean blogging community's annual Donor's Choose drive (which ends November 9th) then you get your name…

Energy storage optimization takes a great deal of wisdom, such as the proper trade-offs between energy density or power density.   Batteries, which store energy by separating chemicals and are…

Is alcoholism genetic as well as behavioral?  Studies have suggested it in the past and scientists at Brookhaven National Lab say they have the first experimental evidence of it.Their study…

Researchers say they have discovered a gene variant that may protect against alcoholism.   The variant, in a gene called CYP2E1, is associated with a person's response to alcohol. For the 10 to…

ROME, October 19, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Preliminary results from a trial of a teaching programme designed for children with Down syndrome show significant gains in language and reading skills.…