A vehicle belonging to an officer of the US Embassy in Kenya. [Courtesy] The red registration plate numbers on vehicles driven on Kenyan roads communicate two things – first, that the vehicle ...

Instead, the discs — showing hours on the largest, minutes on the middle one, and seconds on the smallest — rotate past a red marker, which indicates the current time. The three discs also turn on ...

The often-tedious work involved measuring the brightness, position, and spectra of hundreds of thousands of stars imaged on glass plates, and using that information to categorize each star. Cannon ...