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According to an article in The New York Times, critics of the Obama Administration’s nuclear weapons policy believe that a new generation of nuclear weapons will prove to be a destabilizing force. The smaller explosive yield of the “new” B61-12 nuclear bomb could blur the lines between nuclear and conventional weapons, making them less controversial and more “useable,” they argue. Critics also believe a planned new nuclear cruise missile is both unnecessary and expensive....

The great thing about nuclear weapons is that they work best when a politician talks about them, as opposed to actually using them. Case in point: Vladimir Putin today grabbed the world’s attention by touting new nuclear missiles that, he says, could defeat any missile defense system. “Efforts to contain Russia have failed, face it,” he said during a state of the union speech.What Is He Talking About?From the description, Putin is most likely talking about the RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile....

Three Mile Island Unit 1 has officially stopped producing electricity.The nuclear power plant is most associated with Unit 2, which suffered a partial meltdown in 1979. Unit 1 has provided power for over 800,000 homes and businesses since then, but was unable to compete with natural gas as a lone reactor.Because of the dangers of nuclear waste, a smaller number of employees will be working at the plant through 2060.Just a few weeks after its 45th birthday, the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant has officially stopped producing electricity....

You likely don’t realize it, but when you’re done reading this article, you will have traveled perhaps 90 seconds into the future. The truth is that it is easier, theoretically speaking, to travel forward in time than it is to travel backward, and that’s partly because we’re all moving forward in time naturally. The possibility of time travel stems from Albert Einstein’s theory of special relativity, which, loosely speaking, describes the relationship between space and time....

PM west coast editor Ben Stewart drives a brand-new Corvette Z06 from Los Angeles to New York this week, in search of America’s best driving roads.Let’s just get this out of the way right now: the Corvette Z06 is an animal. It can light up the tires through second gear without trying. Its 325/30ZR19 rear tires don’t stand a chance. On the twisty roads, the car sticks like nothing short of a $100,000 supercar—maybe better....

This week Craftsman issued a recall on two of their 12-amp electric blower/vacs, which amounts to about 74,000 units. There have been seven reports of them catching fire as well as one reported injury.Blower/vacs are popular among homeowners and in heavy use this time of year. The Craftsman has a red motor housing and a black blower tube and restrictor nozzle, and measure 12 inches high by 34 inches long. Blower/vacs with model number 138....

With the upcoming launch of Disney+ and Apple TV+ and the eventual release of other new streaming services, there is now an abundance of streaming options for us to choose from and enjoy. But even if this is the case, there is still a certain appeal in watching shows in real time, and that’s something most streaming platforms can’t give.The answer? HDTV antennas.Take your pick from the indoor HDTV antennas below and start enjoying television the old school way:ANTOP Paper Thin 30-Mile AT-105 Indoor HDTV AntennaStackBUY NOW$18, down from $35 Clocking in at only 0....

Even the novice DIY-er can build a bed frame. That’s because beds are relatively simple structures, consisting of just five basic components: a headboard, footboard, two horizontal rails, and wooden slats that span the rails and support the box spring. Related StoryHow to Build a Kid’s Bed for a Small SpacePlus, there’s no such thing as a typical DIY bed frame. You decide on the style, design, wood species, budget and type, and color of the finish....

The EX35 is more like a wagon version of the G35 sedan than like an Infiniti SUV. Yes, of course you’ve heard things like this before. Crossovers have become more carlike with each new generation. But the difference here is that Infiniti doesn’t pretend the all-new EX’s low-profile tires will spend time slogging down a muddy two-track any more than its low roofline will ever see a pair of kayaks strapped above....

Yes, the modern smartphone is more powerful than the computer used by NASA during the Apollo mission, but that overlooks how impressive the Apollo computers actually were. For starters, there wasn’t just one computer, there were four.NASA’s computers, specifically the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC), were at least ten years ahead of their time from a commercial tech perspective—their strength unmatched until a decade later with the advent of computers like the Apple II....

This month a 24-year-old woman in China’s Shandong Province walked into a hospital complaining of nausea and dizziness, and walked out having learned that she was missing a huge portion of her brain. A CAT scan showed that her entire cerebellum, a vital chunk of brain in charge of motor control, never developed. The void where it should have been was nothing but a swamp of cerebrospinal fluid.How could a person live a full life not knowing so much of her brain was gone?...

View full post on IframeJetBlue Flight 50 from Savannah, Georgia, to Boston’s Logan International Airport slid of the taxiway after landing at approximately 7:15 p.m. EST on Monday, Christmas Day. The Airbus A320 reportedly hit a patch of ice upon landing, lost control and did a 180 degree spin, then came to a stop between two taxiways.“Everything’s fine. We just skidded on the ice,” the pilot radio to Air Traffic Control after the landing, according to ABC News....

The Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland can often be found colliding particles together at nearly the speed of light, but recently it has begun colliding a new type of particle for the first time: atoms. In a test run on July 25, scientists at the LHC accelerated lead atoms with a single electron and maintained the beam for multiple hours, creating an opportunity for future experiments with these types of particles....

Researchers in New Zealand made a startling discovery when looking through leopard seal scat: a fully functioning USB stick.The discovery came amidst studying the diets of the seal, the second largest in the Antarctic region. The species is flourishing, which highlights the fact that even a healthy species like the leopard seal is forced to deal with humanity’s increased invasion of their space.“It is very worrying that these amazing Antarctic animals have plastic like this inside them,” says Jodie Warren, a volunteer at New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research who ended up cleaning off the dirty drive, in a press statement....

Olympic National Park, located in Washington state’s Olympic Peninsula, is faced with a daunting challenge: removing a ballooning mountain goat population that’s developed a strong appetite for human pee. Mountain goats aren’t a native species in the park. Since their introduction in the 1920s, their numbers have blossomed into a staggering 700 ungulates. Now, with humans flooding the area and routinely relieving themselves on various hiking trails, the goats have developed an insatiable thirst for urine, which serves as a strong source of salt and minerals....

Elon Musk and his private spaceflight company SpaceX recently outlined their plan to make space travel to Mars an affordable reality—just $500,000 for a one-way ticket to the Red Planet. To shuttle people to Mars (within the next decade if ambitious goals can be met) SpaceX is working on a carbon fiber fuel tank for a massive 400-foot-tall reusable rocket that only exists on the drawing board at this point. But getting people to Mars is only half the battle....

The next space race could be to put a nuclear satellite in cislunar space.The U.S. military and NASA both have projects in the works, as does China.Nuclear reactors could be remotely assembled from pieces launched one at a time.The Pentagon is working on a “nuclear thermal propulsion” engine with the goal to be able to drive satellites around in space, The Daily Beast reports. This seems to be a multi-motivated effort to thwart other countries’ space progress, better mine resources from the moon, and also serve as a weapon....

An independent researcher has discovered that certain types of military radars can be detected from space. Harel Dan, a self-described “geodata junkie," realized that radar waves generated by the U.S.-made Patriot missile system become visible when viewed from a satellite radar system, pinpointing their location.In a post on Medium, Dan describes working with data from the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-1 satellite constellation. The two satellites that make up Sentinel-1 use synthetic aperture radar to image the entire Earth every six days, transmitting the data to ground stations in Italy, Spain, and Norway....

The Internet of Things revolution has ushered in a completely new era of DIY engineering. Now, with only a limited number of supplies and funds, a curious and enterprising individual can design and build anything from home automation systems to personalized robots in the comfort of their own homes, and with little outside instruction.Nothing embodies this new engineering reality like Arduino—a powerful open source hardware and software platform that can be used to build an almost limitless number of awesome gadgets....

LAS VEGAS – It’s press day at the Consumer Electronics Show here, and as geek bloggers pack into product unveilings in overstuffed ballrooms downstairs, I’m prowling for robots. The booths are being knocked together throughout the cavernous exhibit halls of the Venetian hotel and casino–all part of the yearly construction frenzy that precedes North America’s largest trade show. But as two forklift drivers pass the makeshift home of robot toy-maker Wowwee, the first one stops....