The MOMENTUM study found 27 percent of patients with resistant hypertension have hypercortisolism. More than one in four patients with resistant hypertension have elevated cortisol levels, according to new findings from the MOMENTUM study presented…
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…
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…
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…
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…