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Critics of the Zumwalt-class destroyers have worried that the ship’s design could lead to instability at sea.The destroyer uses a unique “tumblehome hull” design.According to sailors that have spent time on the ship at sea, it actually handles rough seas better than most ships.The U.S. Navy’s newest destroyer is a “better ride” in rough seas than other ships, thanks to the shape of the hull and other factors. The USS Zumwalt, with its knifelike bow, is more stable in heavy seas that other destroyers and cruisers....

We’re not endorsing that you cheat at family game night. But if you’re interesting in a clever project to improve your DIY skills, YouTuber Matthais Wandel breaks down an easy, step-by-step method for making loaded dice.There’s some trial-and-error here, and the maker must figure out a way to break open a wooden die without leaving telltale marks. Once Wandel decides to use a vice and a hammer, it takes a few tries to get it open just right....

Media Platforms Design TeamBlaring car alarms are the most recognizable (and annoying) automotive security feature, but protecting your car is about more than an alarm.AccessoriesAlloy wheels and driving lights are easy targets because they can be removed quickly and quietly. You can fit antitheft locking nuts to prevent this from happening. Available from most auto retail outlets, they are cheap and easy to fit, and they come with unique nuts and tools that simply replace the nuts that can be removed with universal tools....

Media Platforms Design TeamWhen a well pumps water from an aquifer, it lowers the water table in a “depression cone.” In severe cases this can deplete streams on the surface. Monitoring wells can track the depression cone as it expands. (Illustration by Flying-Chilli.com)Two simple facts about Las Vegas: Its population has doubled since 1990, to 570,000; and 90 percent of its water comes from the Colorado River, which is in the throes of the worst drought in recorded history....

• Farfarout is a tiny object that’s 140 AU away (one AU is the distance from the Earth to the sun). • The previous furthest known object in our solar system, called simply Farout, was only 120 AU from here.• Farfarout’s orbit could reveal secrets of the outer solar system—including whether there’s an unknown Planet Nine out there.The universe has a way of surprising even its most ardent observers. Scott Sheppard, an astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D....

Sailing through a thick fog, you come upon a mysterious island shrouded in mist. A towering volcano in the center of the island pierces the clouds, billowing smoke into the sky. You land your boat and set out to ascend the peak. After an arduous climb, you approach the volcano summit, where lava glows red within a vast crater. Here, you are approached by three gods. ProblemOn the summit of this remote volcano, you realize a few things through divine intervention....

If you’ve been looking for the perfect beer to wash down a steaming bowl of plomeek soup, look no further. Shmaltz Brewery is here with the latest iteration of Vulcan ale, a Star Trek licensed beer cooked up by Federation of Beer, a marketing company. The Red Session IPA is being called The Genesis Effect. Here’s the thing. We will drink this beer. We will do it happily. It is beer....

Birds are dinosaurs. So, naturally, the idea of switching on a few genes in a chicken to turn it back into a dinosaur has been discussed for a while. Paleontologist Jack Horner wrote a book about. And somebody finally did it. Kind of. While studying beak evolution, a Yale-Harvard team working with chicken embryos isolated proteins associated with beak development and suppressed them during the development process. In turn, the chicken embryo – which will not be incubated to hatching – developed a primitive snout from dinosaur days....

The pyramids of Giza are some of the oldest structures still standing, and while scientists and archaeologists have been studying the pyramids for centuries, progress has been slow. Investigating the pyramids tends to be hampered by their status as a protected site and the hundreds of tons of rock between researchers and anything important.This means there’s still a lot left to discover about the Giza Pyramids. Case in point: a group of researchers recently used high-energy radiation from space to discover a “void” in the Great Pyramid....

We have lots of things to worry about here on Earth, so the last thing anyone wants to do is fret over a possible threat from outer space. But that doesn’t mean those threats don’t exist. In fact, according to a recent announcement, there are now over 20,000 of them.NASA and other space agencies have spent a long time trying to prevent any rogue asteroids from crashing into the Earth and obliterating all life as we know it....

Yesterday, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey openly acknowledged the obvious truth: Twitter is a pit. View full post on TwitterThis is good! Identifying and naming your problem is a key step on the path toward solving it. But even as Dorsey outlines the issues without sugarcoating them, he conspicuously ignores the obvious solution: Users have the answer—and they’ve always had it—but Twitter has long since abandoned the idea of letting them fix anything, including the cesspool problem....

President Trump wants to divert nearly $4 billion in military spending away from equipment programs to build his wall along the Mexico border.The spending would cut more than dozen aircraft, a U.S. Navy ship, and cut funding for other programs. This is the second year the administration has sought to use military spending to fund a project voters were assured Mexico would pay for. President Donald Trump wants to shift nearly four billion dollar in the defense budget away from military procurement to fund his border wall construction project....

The FBI has issued a dire warning to everyone who has a router in their home. The Internet Crime Complaint Center sent a rare Public Service Announcement declaring: “Foreign cyber actors have compromised hundreds of thousands of home and office routers and other networked devices worldwide.“The hackers are using VPNFilter malware to target small office and home office routers, the FBI said. “VPNFilter is able to render small office and home office routers inoperable,” the FBI warns....

The Second Law of Thermodynamics says that entropy in the universe must always increase. It’s an immutable law of physics, and it’s the reason you can’t get free energy or perpetual motion machines. But a group of physicists may have found a way to break this law, at least in some specific circumstances.The researchers, from Argonne National Laboratory, have developed a theoretical model where the Second Law is violated on a molecular level....

President Obama’s 2017 budget request for NASA is out. While nothing is final (this is, after all, a presidential budget going up against a Congress that has not supported Obama’s policies), NASA tends to have bipartisan support in Washington, D.C., so the $19 billion ask may not be far off the mark in the end.There are few major surprises in the budget. It continues a planetary science emphasis on Mars and the upcoming mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa, while laying the groundwork for whatever becomes the next flagship mission....

Cerebras Systems, a Silicon Valley startup in stealth mode since 2016, has released the world’s largest functional computer chip.At 56 times the size of the next largest chip, the company says its chip’s computing power will enable artificial intelligence solutions at an exponentially faster rate. The chip has a redundant structure, meaning that the expected imperfections in chip manufacturing will be insignificant. The optics of computer chip design and manufacturing are central to whatever device you’re reading this article on, but chips have never really been considered sexy....

Media Platforms Design TeamDrafthouse Films is resurrecting the not-so-classic film Roar, one of the great work of hilarious hubris in cinematic history, by bringing it back to theaters. See all the dates here.During the 11 years it took to make this movie, Tippi Hedren, Noel Marshall, family, cast, and crew sustained more than 70 injuries. The reason for those injuries is pretty obvious. There were dozens and dozens of lions in Hedren’s makeshift southern California preserve that’s featured in the film, which an (extremely) loosely plotted thriller more famous for the casualties than the characters....

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/v/AWPi_FkckaY&hl=en_US&fs=1&[/youtube]New York— Volkswagen introduced the all-new 2011 Volkswagen Jetta in Times Square this morning to a public audience assembled on a sandy beach and grass lawn. The Jetta goes on sale in the U.S. in October at a base price of just over $16,000, or about $1,500 less than the least-expensive 2010 model. Before the unveiling, however, Stefan Jacoby, CEO of Volkswagen Group of America, addressed the crowd of onlookers and remarked that the famous intersection was the perfect place to show the car because of its excitement and renown as “a place for new beginnings....

There’s no way around it: Kitchen-remodeling projects don’t come cheap. The national average cost for a minor kitchen remodel is about $18,500, while a major overhaul comes in at almost $54,000.Whether you’re thinking about a minor remodeling update or a major facelift, if you get your priorities in order and you’re flexible, staying on budget is possible.Know Your LimitsTo save money, don’t make any structural changes. That includes adding on to the kitchen or turning an adjoining room into part of the kitchen....

Media Platforms Design TeamA computer rendering of the new A330neo by Fixion-GwlnsodToday Airbus revealed two new planes—kind of. In reality, the new Airbus 330-800neo and 330-900neo are updated versions of the same plane design, which originally debuted more than two decades ago. These new souped-up aircraft cut fuel consumption by 14 percent and increase range by 400 nautical miles, according to an Airbus press release. The new models are expected to begin shipping by the end of 2017....