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In the final weeks of my pregnancy, I found myself reading and listening to birth stories at a feverish pace. I’d taken a birth education class and felt informed about the mechanics of labor and ...

In 1966, when the Advanced Research Projects Agency hosted the precursor to today’s Internet, the scientists and engineers at academic institutions could not have foreseen the impact their work would ...

Gain insights into the key milestones and trends that have shaped the internet into the global phenomenon it is today. The internet has become an integral part of our daily lives, revolutionizing how ...

On this very day 55 years ago, a small group of computer scientists at the University of California (UCLA) did something that had never been seen before - they created the world's first internet ...

More than 3,000 watch Minn. woman give birth live on the Internet. Nov. 9, 2009— -- When a 23-year-old Minnesota teacher gave birth this weekend, it wasn't just her husband, mother and midwife ...