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Asian stock markets followed Wall Street higher on Thursday, as hopes of developing a coronavirus vaccine competed with concern over rising infections in the US. The Shanghai SHCOMP Composite Index, + 2.13% increased 0.7% and the Nikkei 225 NIK, + 0.11% in Tokyo added 0.6%. The Hang Seng HSI, + …

SpaceX, the space exploration company led by Elon Musk, has just launched satellite navigation. On Tuesday, the company launched a Falcon 9 rocket for its first United States Space Force mission. The rocket took off at 4:10 pm EST from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Staton Air Force …

As the U.S. continues to see an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases, the country’s health officials are considering a new testing strategy to determine how many people have been exposed to the virus. Called group testing, the proposed strategy is to combine samples from several people and conduct …

The Spanish researchers’ proposal is to produce vanadium flow battery electrodes from chitin, a shrimp shell material. Credit: John Cameron / Unsplash A project by Spanish researchers and other collaborators from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) suggests the use of chitin from shrimp shells to produce electrodes for vanadium …

Credit: Oliver Cragg / Android Authority Google has discontinued the Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL. The Pixel 4 series is the only range of smartphones that it sells now. You can still buy the Pixel 3a series from outside vendors. The 2019 Google mid-range smartphones have completed their successful …