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Good Morning,
Nintendo announced the pending release of its new gaming
system. They are shooting for a 2012 market launch and are
up in the air over a couple of names--including just Wii 2;
go figure. Read all the details in the first article.
Until Next Time,
Erin
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Nintendo says the next Wii is on the way
KYOTO, Japan - Japanese electronic game producer Nintendo
said Monday the Wii's successor will be available in stores
in 2012. The new device hasn't got a name yet, the Los
Angeles Times reported Monday, but it does have a public
debut scheduled for the E3 game industry conference in Los
Angeles in June. Rumors for a possible name range from Wii
2 to Project Cafe. There are also few bankable details about
the new console's look, power and capabilities. Nintendo
was the first to come up with motion-detectors to control a
game and has recently released a successful, hand-held 3-D
game system that does not require special glasses to get a
3-D effect. Whether the next Wii includes 3-D images, how-
ever, is unknown. The initial success of the Wii system has
fallen off considerably. In its first-quarter financial
statement, Nintendo said revenue fell 29 percent to $12.4
billion in 2010 with profits dropping 66 percent to $948
million.
Europe approves powerful research lasers
BRUSSELS - The European Commission says it has approved
plans to build new lasers that will dwarf the power of
existing lasers for research into particle physics. Three
new lasers, each costing about $400 million, will be con-
structed -- one in the Czech Republic, one in Hungary and
one in Romania, NewScientist.com reported Monday. The lasers,
set for completion in 2015, will be capable of firing pulses
that reach a power of 10 petawatts. Each of the lasers will
be different in its design details, allowing each to perform
different high-energy physics experiments, including accel-
erating particles using the laser pulses, studying atomic
nuclei, and generating fleeting pulses to study the dynamics
of extremely fast events in atoms. The project, called the
Extreme Light Infrastructure, will pave the way for an even
more powerful laser capable of generating 10 beams, each
twice as powerful as any one of the three ELI lasers, resear-
chers said.
Telescopes looking for alien life shut off
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - A telescope array in California built
to listen for signals from distant alien civilizations has
been shut down for lack of money, its operators say. The
Allen Telescope Array has been put into "hibernation," its
operators said, and "starting this week, the equipment is
unavailable for normal observations and is being maintained
in a safe state by a significantly reduced staff." The an-
nouncement came Friday in a letter to donors from Tom Person,
chief executive officer of the SETI Institute in Mountain
View, Calif., ScientificAmerican.com reported. The ATA is a
partnership between the SETI Institute, which built the
telescope array, and the University of California, Berkeley,
which is responsible for operating it. The non-profit SETI
Institute, founded in 1984, relies mostly on private dona-
tions to support its research. A number of early SETI Insti-
tute projects had been funded by NASA, but Congress stopped
NASA's short-lived SETI program in 1993. The SETI Institute
has been working for more than two years to find new funding,
Person said, and has even offered ATA's services to the U.S.
Air Force to assist in tracking orbital debris that can en-
danger defense satellites. "We are continuing discussions
with the USAF and remain hopeful that this effort will help
provide future operating funds," he wrote in the letter. ATA
operations cost about $1.5 million per year, Pierson said.
Bacteria seen surviving 'hypergravity'
YOKOSUKA, Japan - Several species of bacteria can survive in
"hypergravity" environments more than 400,000 times Earth's
gravity, Japanese researchers say. Scientists at the Japan
Agency of Marine-Earth Science say their findings suggest
alien life could survive extreme conditions such as the high
G-forces created during meteorite impacts and ejections,
making the transfer of primitive life from meteors and comets
to the early Earth a distinct possibility, SPACE.com reported
Monday. "The number and types of environments that we now
think life can inhabit in the universe has expanded because
of our study," lead author Shigeru Deguchi said. Deguchi and
his colleagues started out just wanting to measure the
density of E. coli bacteria using a centrifuge. But when they
spun E. coli up to the equivalent of 7,500 G's, they found
that the microbe was unaffected, reproducing and growing
without problems. "The finding was a total surprise to us,
and stimulated our curiosity very much," Deguchi told
SPACE.com."So we repeated [the] same experiments at higher
G, and eventually found that E. coli proliferates even at
400,000 G, which was the highest gravity we could achieve by
our instrument." The results suggest transfer of lifeforms
between worlds is a real possibility, researchers said,
noting that Earth has been impacted by millions of tons of
Mars rocks, which exploded off the Red Planet during meteor-
ite strikes. Meteorite-caused rock ejections can generate up
to 300,000 G's, researchers said, and the new study indicates
microbial life could survive such extreme events and continue
to reproduce.
Higgs particle speculation said premature
GENEVA, Switzerland - Rampant speculation that particle
physicists may have found the elusive Higgs boson particle,
central to physics theories, is premature, experts say. An
internal memo at the European Organization for Nuclear Re-
search, or Cern, in Geneva, Switzerland, that was leaked to
the Internet suggested researchers using the Large Hadron
Collider had detected a signal compatible with the sought-
after particle, the BBC reported Tuesday. A Cern spokesman,
while confirming the authenticity of the note, cautioned it
has not been subject to rigorous scientific examination and
could end up a false alarm. "It's genuine, but what it comes
from is a note written by a very small group of people in a
large collaboration," James Gillies, director of communica-
tions at Cern, told BBC News. "If those notes survive scrut-
iny, which is often not the case ... then the next stage in
the peer review process is for them to go out to the collab-
oration as a whole. "What was leaked was the first stage in
that process ... at this stage we can't take it seriously and
these things do come and go quite often." In decades of
attempts, no one has been able to detect the Higgs boson,
central to the widely accepted theory of physics known as the
Standard Model and thought to explain why all other particles
have mass.
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