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The Mercury Astronauts

[caption id="attachment_3937" align="alignnone" width="600"] Image Credit: NASA[/caption] On April 9, 1959, NASA's first administrator, Dr. Keith Glennan, announced the names of the agency's first group of astronauts at a news conference in Washington, D.C. Now…

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New Aluminum battery takes just 60 seconds to…

[caption id="attachment_3934" align="alignnone" width="600"] Researchers light up an LED bulb with their aluminum-ion battery prototype. (Credit: Screenshot from YouTube)[/caption] Researchers from Stanford University have built a battery that does everything you wish your cell phone’s lithium-ion battery…

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PC Shipments Beat Expectations Despite Weak Currencies and…

FRAMINGHAM, Mass– Worldwide PC shipments totaled 68.5 million units in the first quarter of 2015 (1Q15), a year-on-year decline of -6.7%, and slightly ahead of previous projections, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide…

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Passage from India

New book details how Kenya’s Indian immigrants established a foothold in a foreign land. [caption id="attachment_3924" align="alignnone" width="639"] Sana Aiyar and the cover of her book, "Indians in Kenya: The Politics of Diaspora," published by…