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North Korea’s brisk missile testing program has scored at least one casualty: several buildings in the city of Tokchon. We now know that the April 28 missile test of a Hwasong-12 ended in disaster as the missile malfunctioned early in flight, plunging down into an industrial or agricultural part of the city. Satellite imagery of the impact area confirms buildings in the area were damaged by some form of explosion.The accident was reported yesterday by The Diplomat, and the incident and missile impact location was relayed by a U....

Sprinkles of rain gently pepper your head as you thread your way across the parking lot pushing a cart full of groceries. The liftgate of your minivan promises to provide the shelter you need to unload the cart and stay dry. But just as you swing a 40-pound sack of dog food off the cart, your forehead smacks right into the slowly descending liftgate. The dog food is on the pavement and you’ve got a nasty bruise....

Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active planetary body in the solar system. Amidst its hundreds of volcanoes and lava lakes, scientists now believe they’ve encountered a powerful type of eruption seen for the first time on a body other than Earth: a Stromboli-like eruption. The data is a blast from the past, coming from NASA’s Galileo orbiter which explored the Jupiter system from 1995 through 2003. Even though Galileo burned up in Jupiter’s atmosphere 14 years ago, its Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (NIMS) sent back so much data that scientists are still sifting through it....

A U.S. Navy maritime patrol aircraft was the subject of an “unprofessional intercept” by a Russian Su-27 interceptor, according to several news reports. The Russian jet reportedly came within 20 feet of the larger plane. The U.S. Navy has stated that despite the proximity of the two planes the event was “safe” and that it does not comment on safe interactions. The incident took place on Tuesday, May 1 over the Baltic Sea....

Media Platforms Design TeamSocial media is a great platform for testing out jokes, posting pictures of your cats, or airing your snarky opinions about your landlord, or your cable company, or your next-door neighbor. But what happens when one of your snarky tweets rubs someone the wrong way—so much so that they want to sue you? This was the topic of “Can I Tweet That? Social Media and the Law,” a talk here at South by Southwest featuring Dara Quackenbush, a public relations professor at Texas State University and a strategic communications adviser....

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has been spewing lava into residential neighborhoods in the southeastern corner of the Big Island since it erupted on Thursday, May 3, destroying 26 homes. Like many other Hawaiian volcanoes, Kilauea is a shield volcano that emits fluid basalt lava and is defined by its broad dome shape, rather than a steep peak, like Washington’s Mount St. Helens.But this week’s activity is just one of 61 recorded eruptions in the volcano’s cycle....

You don’t need to be a professional chef in order to appreciate the importance of having great knives in the kitchen. Whether you’re looking to up your own blade game or get that aspiring chef in your life the perfect gift, this Damasukasu Japanese 3-Piece Master Chef Hanshu Knife Set is a must-have item this holiday season—and its already discounted price has just been dropped to $70, over 75 percent off....

Apple software developer Forrest Heller put together a blog post comparing the power output of today’s heftiest USB-C chargers and the computer on board Apollo 11.By his estimates, the Anker PowerPort Atom PD 2 USB-C Wall Charger is 563 times faster than the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer. But in NASA’s defense, the Guidance Computer was completely crash-proof. The charger currently juicing up your MacBook Pro is probably more powerful than the Apollo 11’s onboard computer that guided the first astronauts to the moon....

Media Platforms Design TeamFord’s entire stable is changing quickly. The standard Mustang, base and GT, will have new engines this year. The V8 GT will soon have over 400 hp, narrowing the gap between it and the GT500. That more than anything is probably why the GT500 needed some extra giddyup. While we won’t drive the new car until this spring, here’s mechanical walk-around. The SpecsAt first glance, the news in the engine bay isn’t all that promising....

As I watched the guy unpack his Phantom 4 drone in the middle of a gorgeous valley in Mongolia, I thought: I came out here to get away from people like this. Here we were, far from LTE reception, watching wild horses run. Beautiful stuff. Then the dude’s propellers start their power-tool whine as his drone whips around the sky, all so he could pretend to be David Attenborough for his Instagram followers....

Manufacturing the cement that binds typical concrete causes about 5 percent of global CO2 emissions. Integrity Block, which makes a structurally sound concrete replacement, shaves that figure by using 40 percent less cement in its rammed-earth masonry. Up to half of each block is composed of quarry scraps. “Quarries are typically after a particular mineral,” says Shawn Cunningham, the company’s vice-president of marketing. “Everything else gets poured out.” As for looks: “When you stack them against a concrete equivalent, there’s no comparison,” Cunningham says....

NASA’s ambitious Lunar Gateway program has gone international. Canada has committed to contributing 2 billion Canadian dollars ($1.4 billion) over 24 years to the Lunar Orbital Platform Gateway program, which NASA hopes will become a human residency in orbit around the moon.NASA hopes the orbital outpost will generate “activity with commercial and international partners and help us explore the Moon and its resources,” according to William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator, Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, at NASA Headquarters....

China is reportedly developing a reusable spaceplane capable of delivering cargo to Earth orbit. The unnamed spacecraft appears similar to the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B space plane and likely has the same missions. However, it does differ from its American cousin in some key respects—at least for now.Chinese state television recently ran a segment describing a new spaceplane under development, comparing it to the American X-37B. Operated by the U.S. Air Force, the X-37B is something of an unmanned space truck, carrying classified payloads into low-earth orbit and staying there for up to 700 days at a time....

Chinese scientists have successfully edited the genetic information of human embryos. The researchers used CRISPR to remove genetic mutations from a handful of viable human embryos and have published the results in the journal Molecular Genetics and Genomics.CRISPR, which is a new technique that enables targeted genetic modification, has been one of the biggest breakthroughs in genetics in the past decade. It lets scientists target a specific section of DNA, remove it from the genome, and even replace it with something else if they wish....

With the arrival of summer comes wildfire season, and with it, one of America’s newest and worst traditions: folks flying drones through forest fires.Related StoryHow Drones Became Firefighting’s Worst EnemyDrone usage in western Colorado last week forced firefighters to delay fighting what’s being called the Bocco Fire. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) reported that tankers and helicopters were grounded for at least an hour while resources were diverted towards the goose hunt of looking for a drone instead....

Media Platforms Design TeamWhen it comes to theme parks, Disney is positively Apple-like in its secrecy–ask a Disney employee how one of their rides or attractions works, and you’re likely to be told “magic”. So it’s not surprising that, even though Expedition Everest (one of the tallest and fastest roller coasters Disney has ever built) has been open at its Animal Kingdom park since 2006, the company has never let a journalist see the guts inside its mountain-like structure, until now....

A mysterious, pulsating radio wave that astronomers have been tracking for two years has suddenly and inexplicably fallen silent.Fast Radio Bursts are blinking radio waves that shoot out repeatedly from a single point through space.Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy and Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope have been searching for clues about the origins of these curious radio waves.An intergalactic mystery has recently perplexed astronomers. Fast Radio Bursts are repeating radio wave signals that shoot out across the universe, flickering for milliseconds at a time from a single origin in space....

Engine: 6.7-liter Cummins I6, 360 hp and 800 lb-ft of torque / Transmission: Allison 3000 MH six-speed automatic / Gross vehicle weight rating: 29,000 pounds / Height: 13 feet, 1 inch / Brakes: air brakes / Sleeping capacity: Nine / Base price: $255,293.00A 20-year college reunion presents a dilemma: you’re young enough to want to stay up late playing flip cups, but old enough—or maybe wise enough—to dread the prospect of staying in a dorm....

Newer twin-engine planes like Boeing’s 737 Max can travel long distances are starting to reshape air travel away from a hub-and-spoke model. More non-stop flights is great news for travelers, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t downsides. Flight attendants for American Airlines have started to get vocal about one problem in particular: the bathrooms on the 737 max are almost unusably small. In an attempt to squeeze more seats into a smaller space, Boeing cut back on the size of the bathrooms, and as flight attendants for American Airlines have noted in a private meeting reported on by the Los Angeles Times, it’s a major inconvenience....

A red-light stunt in Mumbai shows police lengthening red lights as long as drivers keep honking.Traffic light lengths are calculated with optimal safety and mobility in mind, and they’re delicate.Measuring only car honks is unlikely in the mix of loud, steady noises that already exist in cities.A new kind of red light is going viral—one that stays red as long as drivers keep honking their horns. Locals have commented around the internet that the “Punishing Signal” was a public awareness campaign and publicity stunt from Mumbai’s police department, which shared a video combining funny, dramatic shots of officers with footage of drivers encountering the lights....