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Last month, North and South Korea signed an agreement that is designed to de-escalate tension at the demilitarized zone between the two nations, which have technically been at war since the 1950s. One major feature: a no-fly zone over the border. Related StoriesEverything You Need to Know About N. Korean NukesNo, North Korea Can’t Kill 90 Percent of AmericansAt the time, some South Korean government officials called the agreement the “equivalent to declaring an end to the Korean War....

Researchers at Stanford University now estimate that there are 1.47 million solar panels in use across the contiguous 48 states, a number that’s higher than any other previous estimate. But what’s really cool about this stat is the way they got it. The Stanford scientists built an A.I. called DeepSolar to count up solar panels from space. The machine-learning system “analyzes satellite imagery to identify the GPS locations and sizes of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels,” according to its website....

A key U.S. nuclear weapons document confirms that the Russian government is developing the most powerful nuclear weapon in more than a half century. A leaked copy of the Pentagon’s Nuclear Posture Review states that Russia is developing a “new intercontinental, nuclear-armed undersea autonomous torpedo.”The existence of the weapon, known as Kanyon to the Pentagon and “Ocean Multipurpose System Status-6” to Russia, was first leaked by Russian television in November 2015....

DNA from a horse that lived 700,000 years ago has become the oldest genome to be completely sequenced, blowing away the previous record holders—an 88,000-year-old human fossil and a 120,000-year-old polar bear fossil. The results, published in Nature this week, provide new insight into equine evolution and extend the known limits of DNA survival.“It’s not every day you get a sixfold improvement in ancient genome sequencing,” says Harvard geneticist George Church, who wasn’t involved in the new study....

Our bodies are full of dozens of organs, all performing unique and specialized tasks. Now, new research from Weill Cornell Medicine and NYU Langone Health may have discovered one more: the interstitium, a fluid-filled membrane beneath our skin that cushions and protects the other organs inside our bodies.The researchers were studying tissue in some patients’ bile ducts when they noticed some strange pattern in the tissue surrounding the ducts. They weren’t sure exactly what that tissue was, so they decided to study it more....

Media Platforms Design TeamThe future of gaming will be strapped to your face. Today at the 2014 Game Developers Conference, Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida announced its new virtual reality headset, dubbed Project Morpheus. Other than an obvious reference to The Matrix, the headset will only be for the PlayStation 4 (as clearly visible by its side branding) and is still in its prototype phase. Polygon reports that the company is focusing on six areas in order for a successful commercial product, including sound, tracking, control, sight, content, and ease of use....

The half track was one of the first vehicles designed to carry infantry in combat.Collector Dave Thomas and his wife Judy restored a surplus M15 half track to pristine condition. The half track, although nearly 80 years old, looks virtually new. One of the world’s first armored personnel carriers was the U.S. Army’s half track. Half wheeled, half tracked, the half track saw service around the world and was a key part of the Allied victory in World War II....

On Tuesday, in the midst of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the White House proposed regulations on AI that would limit government overreach. According to the Trump administration, if the U.S. and its allies have heavy regulatory power over artificial intelligence, it could potentially stifle innovation and allow competitors, like China, to catch up.The administration posits that if the U.S. is slow to develop AI-based technologies, there’s a greater chance that adversaries in other countries who could get ahead will use the tech for ill-will and there will be no way to stop it....

Media Platforms Design TeamSchlage, which has been making locks for more than 90 years, has launched a line of touch-enabled deadbolt locks that wants to free us all from the burden of carrying keys everywhere. I recently had the opportunity to try the Schlage Touchscreen Deadbolt lock myself and I was impressed. Sort of.Aesthetically speaking, the lock is attractive, and the so-called touchscreen—which is really not so much a screen as a lighted keypad—seems to function well....

A renowned trauma injury surgeon has conducted his first human trial of suspended animation.Unlike hibernation or therapeutic hypothermia, suspended animation is basically clinical death, without heart or brain activity.Ethical snags, red tape, and need for the right facilities and patient base have held this study off for years.New Scientist reports that doctors have used therapeutic suspended animation for the first time as part of a carefully designed human trial. The procedure, called Emergency Preservation and Resuscitation (EPR), is a way to try to save the lives of people with severe traumatic injuries like gunshot damage—patients who have lost the majority of their blood and gone into cardiac arrest....

Media Platforms Design TeamEHRA, Germany – We’ve followed DARPA’s robotic car challenge, with test drives and live coverage, from a frustrating finish in 2004 to last fall’s slo-mo finale. But the end game is nearing, and in one jam-packed day here recently, technicians from the Volkswagen Group showed us a few highly automated vehicle prototypes and systems that will take robots to the road and DARPA to the dealership. Believe the gee-whiz hype: VW is tantalizingly close–closer, at least–to volume production of driverless car technology....

Moving is like starting a game of chess. You know that no matter how well you do, you’re going to finish with fewer pieces than when you started out. Forty million Americans move every year, and 80 percent of them move from April through September, so we’re now in the thick of what of what professional movers call “pandemonium season.” If you find yourself in that 80 percent, follow our moving tips to make it a smooth transition, with all your stuff (and your sanity) unbroken upon arrival....

Media Platforms Design TeamAMC is getting a new drama miniseries about Jack Parsons, the early twentieth century occultist rocket genius, with Ridley Scott attached as producer. It’s called Strange Angel. Mark Heyman, who wrote Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan and recent indie favorite The Skeleton Twins, is set to write the series, and it looks like there will be more than enough material to keep a miniseries going.Strange Angel, based on the book Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life Of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons, tells the story of Parsons, who invented the solid-fuel rocket and cofounded NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory....

We’ve always had a thing for big trucks and big engines—especially when they’re used to crush stuff. Bigfoot had been through twelve iterations when we first published this story. Twenty-six years later, they’re up to number 21, which is still destroying old cars and making crowds cheer.A firestorm of exploding glass fractures the light in a blaze of brilliant sparkles. This is car abuse at its most spectacular—monster trucks dive-bombing a squad of sacrificial automobiles, pouncing and bouncing crazily over roofs and hoods, and bashing them pancake-flat....

Ah, magnets. Refrigerators are full of ’em. They power our Netflix binge-sessions. When broken down into tiny pieces and smashed into Silly Putty, they can provide hours of fun. Magnetism is the force exerted by magnets, objects that repel or attract each other. This powerful physical phenomenon is one component of electromagnetism, one of the fundamental forces of nature. The motion of electrically charged particles found in all matter gives off electric currents that create a magnetic field....

In just a century, the aircraft carrier has evolved from launching canvas-winged biplanes to formidable fighter jets capable of attacking targets hundreds of miles away. Although the ships themselves have changed greatly over the past 100 years, the carrier remains the answer to one of the most difficult questions for any navy: How to project power by sea.In 1942, Admiral William ‘Bull’ Halsey, one of America’s greatest carrier commanders, succinctly summed up the carrier’s role as enabling the U....

Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Development Programs, better known as Skunk Works, might be further along in the development process for the SR-72 than it has let on. A proposed hypersonic reconnaissance and strike aircraft, the SR-72 would serve as a replacement for the famed SR-71 Blackbird, which was retired by the Air Force back in 1998. In June, Lockheed announced early progress on the program, and now a source told Aviation Week that they spotted a small demonstrator aircraft landing at Skunk Works facilities in Palmdale, California, possibly associated with early tests for the unmanned SR-72 program....

Drones are amazing and cool and powerful, but traditionally they can be thwarted by an impenetrable obstacle that has vexed drone creators and pilots for years: doors. Because, you know, drones crash into doors. But scientists at Stanford University and the EPFL (and that would be École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, an engineering research institute funded by the Swiss government) have built a micro-drone that can open doors and move objects 40 times their own weight....

A Star Trek fan club that was simply trying to do a good deed for the community accidentally painted an Army tank the wrong color. The M41 Walker Bulldog light tank, on display in West Virginia, is now bright yellow thanks to a coloring mistake. The club, city, and National Guard are all planning to fix the tank and restore its proper color.The M41 tank is owned by the National Guard and parked at the entrance to Bluefield, West Virginia’s Lotito Park....

LAS VEGAS — I mentioned before that the lines get longer when the manufacturer is bigger or the product is cooler. Toshiba’s line was very long (see picture at bottom right), and I guess it’s because they’re big. At least, while their products are cool enough, I guess, there wasn’t a whole lot of actual news there. Bottom line: Toshiba is making better HDTVs, and pushing its HD-DVD standard! They hope to sell a lot more HD-DVD players this year!...