May 21, 2013

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  • Look at the eye patch -- it must be a pirate ant
    By LiveScience Scientists have discovered a strangely patterned new insect in the Philippines, dubbing it the pirate ant because of a dark stripe over its eyes that makes it look like it's wearing an eye patch.The formal name of the newfound creature is Cardiocondyla pirata, and belongs to a group of species that are found from Thailand across the whole Indonesian-Malaysian region."On a collection...
        
  • Tools, artistry flourished with climate change, study says
    Sophisticated stone tool-making, artistic symbolism and trade networks were all innovated during times in the Stone Age when the South African climate abruptly became warmer and wetter, according to a new study.The research is the first to "show that there is a link between the occurrence of these cultural innovations and climate change," study leader Martin Ziegler, an earth science researcher at...
        
  • 'Call of Duty: Ghosts' to launch on Xbox One with exclusive content
    Turns out, the ghosts are indeed real. And they're coming to Microsoft's newly minted Xbox One in a big way.Activision's first-person shooter "Call of Duty: Ghosts" will appear on the Xbox One as a launch title for the console, the publisher announced Tuesday at Microsoft's unveiling event for the next-generation video game hardware.While "Call of Duty," like all of Activision's main console title...
        
  • Kinect gets new tech, deep integration with Xbox One
    Microsoft announced the successor to the popular Kinect motion-sensing game accessory at Tuesday's Xbox One event. The updated device works in a totally different way from before, but it's far better — and so essential that one is going to come with every Xbox One.The new Kinect (not the Kinect 2, or Kinect One, just Kinect) works using a completely different principle than the original's. The fir...
        
  • Hypersonic weapons could be in battle by 2025
    By Mike WallSpace.comHigh-tech weapons may be screaming through the skies at five times the speed of sound by the middle of the next decade, U.S. military officials say.That's the most optimistic timeline for the battlefied debut of a superfast new strike capability, officials said, and it depends on continued research into hypersonic vehicles like the Air Force's X-51A Waverider, which completed ...
        
  • Closing in on famous prime number conjecture
    By Tia GhoseLiveScience Infinity down, only 69,999,997 to go.New research has proved that prime numbers don't just disappear as numbers get larger — instead, there is an infinite number of prime numbers separated by a distance of at most 70 million.The new proof, accepted this month for publication in the journal Annals of Mathematics, takes the field one step closer to solving the twin prime conj...
        
  • Steven Spielbergworking on 'Halo' TV series for  Xbox One
    In a surprise move at Microsoft's Xbox One announcement Tuesday, the company revealed that it has partnered with Hollywood director Steven Spielberg to create a live-action television series based on the long-time Xbox-exclusive first-person shooter franchise "Halo."Speaking alongside Microsoft's entertainment and digital media president Nancy Tellem, Bonnie Ross, studio head at "Halo" developer 3...
        
  • See this celestial show now or wait a decade
    By Mike WallSpace.comThree planets are coming together in the evening sky at the moment, putting on a celestial show that won't be seen again for more than a decade.Jupiter, Venus and Mercury are gathering low in the west-northwest evening sky, and next week they'll form the tightest grouping of three naked-eye planets that skywatchers will see until 2026, experts say."Here’s a beautiful chance to...
        
  • Xbox One brings speech, gestures, multitasking to TV
    The new Xbox One console aims to integrate everything you do in your living room into one seamless experience, with TV, games and the Web equally accessible and controllable from the couch. Between gestures, voice control, and Smart Glass, it's probably the most powerful set-top box out there.Watching TV isn't always the simplest proposition these days, with multiple controllers and devices betwee...
        
  • Microsoft reveals Xbox One, the 'new generation' console
    On Tuesday at the company's campus in Redmond, Wash., Microsoft unveiled the new Xbox One console, along with plenty of content plans, including a "Halo" live-action TV show from Steven Spielberg, and an exclusive deal with Activision for "Call of Duty: Ghosts."After a thumping welcome video — carrying the message that in the next generation, gamers will "stop watching and start feeling ... alive"...
        

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NASA News

  • NASA and The White House Pay Tribute to Sally Ride
    NASA and President Obama are honoring the life and legacy of Sally Ride on the day a national tribute was held for the first American woman in space.
  • NASA, Bigelow to Discuss Private Sector Human Space Exploration and Development
    NASA and Bigelow Aerospace of Las Vegas are holding a media availability at 1:30 p.m. EDT, Thursday, May 23, to discuss the agency's Space Act Agreement with the company for its insight on collaborating with commercial industry on exploration beyond Earth orbit. Journalists can participate in-person or by teleconference.
  • Vanderbilt Takes Top Prize in NASA Student Launch Challenge
    The Aerospace Club of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., took first prize in the 2013 annual NASA Student Launch Projects challenge, in which student teams design, build and fly small rockets with science payloads to an altitude of 1 mile and return them safely to Earth.
  • NASA Administrator Visits California Centers, Meets Media
    NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will hold media availabilities at all three of the agency's centers in California this week, highlighting progress on the asteroid mission, commercial crew transportation and space technology development.
  • International Space Station Program, Science Briefing Set
    NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston will host a news conference and social media event at 1 p.m. CDT (2 p.m. EDT) Wednesday, May 22, to preview the upcoming Expedition 36 mission aboard the International Space Station.

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