The primary work of an experimental model basin is the estimation, with reasonable accuracy, of the resistance and horse-power of full-sized ships from experiments with small and inexpensive models.

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THE world is changing. Geopolitical, geoeconomic and technological shocks are reshaping the international order. In today’s volatile world, few partnerships are as strategically vital, forward-looking ...

New data from the ticket sales website SeatPick has shown which of the 11 U.S. cities selected for hosting the FIFA World Cup next year are the best, and worst, for hosting the tournament, with Dallas ...

While sitting outside the Big Three Japanese watchmakers of Seiko, Citizen and Casio, Orient nevertheless has its fans. The brand — which for the past 16 years has had the same parent company as Seiko ...

OpenAI is rolling out the GPT-5 Codex model to all Codex instances, including Terminal, IDE extension, and Codex Web (chatgpt.com/codex). Codex is an AI agent that ...

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D) called on FIFA to abandon dynamic pricing for the 2026 Men’s World Cup, which will be held in the United States, Canada and Mexico. MetLife Stadium ...

Not to be confused with Chinese AI lab Moonshot's recently released, powerful, open source model Kimi K2, another new open source large language model (LLM) called "K2 Think" debuted today, and it's ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The African Union has started an effort to oust the Mercator projection map and replace it with what it says is a more accurately drawn map. The 16 ...

The African Union endorsed a map that reflects the truer relative size of the continent. (map public domain via Equal Earth) Already a member? Sign in here. We rely on readers like you to fund our ...

The African Union has thrown its weight behind a campaign for a more accurate world map that shows how big Africa really is. Popular maps in use often show that Africa is roughly the size of Greenland ...