| NASA to Lease Historic Launch Pad for Commercial Rocket Missions By: Robert Z. Pearlman Published: 05/20/2013 09:57 PM PDT on SPACE.com The historic NASA launch pad from where astronauts blasted off for the moon and space shuttles departed for Earth orbit is now in need of a new rocket to launch.This week, NASA is expected to begin soliciting proposals for the commercial use of Launch Pad 39A at...     | | | 10 hours ago | Solar Impulse airplane set for trip to Dallas, if weather allows | | The Swiss-made Solar Impulse plane is due to set out Wednesday on the record-breaking second leg of its solar-powered trip across America, from Phoenix to Dallas-Fort Worth, as long as the weather is acceptable."Although the flight has been confirmed, the flight director may still decide to postpone it or alter the route shortly before takeoff," Solar Impulse said in an advisory announcing the fli... | | | 10 hours ago | Xbox One won't require always-online connection — but it'll be online a lot | | If you were eagerly monitoring Microsoft's Xbox One announcement Tuesday, you probably heard the word "connected" a lot. To paraphrase almost all of the talking heads that took the stage during Microsoft's unveiling, the company's next-generation video game console was basically promised to be more connected to everything than ever before.Another key phrase that industry watchers and fans alike ha... | | 10 hours ago | Some US utilities say they're under constant cyberattack | | Several power utilities say they face a barrage of cyberattacks on their critical systems, a report by two Democratic lawmakers found, echoing warnings from the Obama administration that foreign hackers were trying to bring down the U.S. power grid.Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., released the report, co-authored with Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., at the House Energy and Commerce Committee's cybersecurity ... | | | | 10 hours ago | Bezos' moon rocket engines restored in Kansas | | By Robert Z. PearlmanSpace.comAlthough they stood up to the immense thrust needed to launch the mighty Saturn V rocket toward the moon, it turns out that the mammoth F-1 engines that powered the booster's first two-and-a-half minutes of flight were no match for the Atlantic Ocean.The twisted and tattered remains of at least two engines, salvaged from the seafloor by an expedition organized and fun... | 10 hours ago | As Xbox One entertainment options multiply, games still at core | | Tuesday Microsoft unveiled the Xbox One, a new console that wants to sell itself as "your all-in-one must have gadget." But while making Skype calls to distant relatives and watching a new Steven Spielberg opus are no doubt impressive, the Xbox is still a device built around video games. So what did we learn about the actual games? No backward compatibility, but used games remain a possibilityFirs... | | | 10 hours ago | Away from home? Petcube lets you watch and play with your pets online | | If you're an anxious pet owner, you probably spend a few minutes at least every day worrying whether your cat or dog is doing all right at home while you're away. Petcube is a little device that lets you not only check in on your furry friend, but speak to and play with it as well.The Petcube is a simple device, really: It's essentially a Wi-Fi accessible webcam that you can control through a Web ... | 10 hours ago | New 'Clueful' app scans Android phones for privacy leaks | | Anti-virus firm Bitdefender Tuesday launched Clueful, a free Android app that tells you how much other Android apps invade your privacy. "Your smartphone is probably the most personal device you own, containing private messages, sensitive banking information, personal photos and other data that can leave you vulnerable if handled carelessly," Bitdefender Chief Security Strategist Catalin Coso... | 13 hours ago | 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... | 13 hours ago | 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 ... | 13 hours ago | 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... | 13 hours ago | '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... | 13 hours ago | 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... | 13 hours ago | 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... | 13 hours ago | Satellites watch the march of deadly Oklahoma tornado from space | | By Clara MoskowitzSpace.comThe progress of Monday's disastrous tornado in Oklahoma was caught from space by satellites in orbit.The GOES-13 satellite, which is operated by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, imaged the movement of storm systems in the south-central United States between Sunday and Monday, including the storm that sparked a tornado in Moore, Okla., estimat... | | 16 hours ago | Shocking new theory: Humans hunted, ate Neanderthals | | By Larry O'HanlonDiscovery NewsHumans today eat gorillas and chimpanzees, so why would our prehistoric ancestors flinch at sitting down to a nicely roasted Neanderthal?That's the shocking new hypothesis being raised by anthropologists in Spain who wonder if our closest extinct relative was exterminated in the same way as 178 other large mammals, so called megafauna, which are suspected of going at... | 16 hours ago | Armstrong, Apollo 11 items pulled from auction | | By Robert Z. PearlmanSpace.comThe joystick controller used to steer the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon, the original recording of Neil Armstrong's heartbeat when he took humankind's first "small step" onto the lunar surface, and the complete tool kit carried on NASA's final manned moon mission won't be auctioned later this month, despite international headlines that heralded the rare space artif... | | | 16 hours ago | Oklahoma tornado: How to find people, pets | | In the aftermath of one of the deadliest tornadoes in U.S. history, many are desperately trying to reach loved ones in areas affected by the disastrous event. Google and the Red Cross are helping confirm the safety of tornado survivors, while the Oklahoma Humane Society and Reddit users band together to take care of missing pets.Google Crisis Response Center and Person FinderGoogle has set up a Cr... | 16 hours ago | Swarming fire ants could be models for rescue robots | | By Eric NiilerDiscovery NewsMuch of the South has been living with fire ants for decades, and most youngsters there know to avoid trampling their giant underground nests unless they are looking for a swarm of painful bites. It turns out that these pesky insects are extremely good at running through tunnels without clobbering each other and even using their antennae as extra limbs.And researchers b... | 16 hours ago | Pre-caffeine tech: Oklahoma | | Our pre-caffeine roundup is a collection of the hottest, strangest, and most amusing stories of the morning.Do tornadoes follow well-worn tracks? Where do the deadliest twisters hit? Will climate change make such storms worse? Monday's devastating tornado in Oklahoma raises some questions for which scientists have ready answers, and others that could puzzle them for years to come.This is why torna...
| 16 hours ago | From space, video of deadly Oklahoma twisters | | By Clara MoskowitzSpace.comThe beginnings of Monday's disastrous tornado in Oklahoma were caught from space by a weather satellite in orbit.The GOES-13 satellite, which is operated by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), imaged the movement of storm systems in the south-central United States between Sunday and Monday, including the storm that sparked a tornado in Mo... | 16 hours ago | Monster vortex formed to create Moore twister | | By Jeanna BrynerLiveScience A monstrous tornado that ripped through Oklahoma Monday piling cars on top of one another, demolishing an elementary school and killing several adults and children, may owe its power and deadliness partly to a convergence of jets of air, say meteorologists.The preliminarily rated EF-4 tornado touched down at 2:56 p.m. CDT (3:56 p.m. ET) and was on the ground for 40 minu... |
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