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Extreme Solar Storms Could Destroy Earth's Power Grids
Tools on the ground are helping scientists learn more about the threat solar eruptions on the sun pose to life as we know it on Earth. Experts with the British Geological Survey (BGS) have started...
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A New Report Suggests That The Best Thing To Do With Carbon Emissions Is To...
In a policy address last week, President Barack Obama made the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States a key priority in the nation's fight against climate change. Now, a newly...
View ArticleRed Dwarf Stars May Destroy Possibility Of Life In Their Systems
*John P. Millis, Ph.D. for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online * Most of the stars in the Universe are classified as red dwarf stars - stars considerably smaller and cooler than our Sun. About 75...
View ArticleComputer Simulations Reveal There Could Be 60 Billion Planets That Could...
*April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online* According to a new study from the University of Chicago and Northwestern University, the influence of cloud behavior on climate doubles the...
View ArticleEurekaMag.com Publishes 84 Thousand New References on the Taxonomy & Biology...
The Life, Earth and Health Sciences Magazine EurekaMag.com provides 36 million references including 11 million summaries in the basic and applied biological, geographical and agricultural sciences....
View ArticleScience Experiment Requires New Altitude For Space Station
*Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online* Crew members aboard the International Space Station (ISS) had to add a little more distance between the orbiting laboratory and Earth on Sunday for...
View ArticleESA Researchers Discover Solid Proof Of Plasmapheric Winds
*[WATCH VIDEO: Plasma Outflow From Plasmasphere To Magnetosphere]* *Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online* A study published in the journal Annales Geophysicae provides the first...
View ArticleFoolproof Garden Gadget Wins Design Materials Award at Dwell on Design...
Earth Starter’s Nourishmat garden system brought home design gold just a week before its Kickstarter launch. Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) July 02, 2013 Earth Starter’s Nourishmat garden system brought home...
View ArticlePeak Resources produces second high value separated rare earth oxide
Peak Resources (ASX: PEK; OTCQX: PKRLY) has produced an ultra-high purity (99.9%) neodymium – praseodymium rare earth oxide using Solvent Extraction Pilot Plant at ANSTO Minerals, from a bulk sample of...
View Article35-Year-Old Seasat Images Now Available From The Alaska Satellite Facility
*Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online* The Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) has released newly processed digital images from NASA's Seasat...
View ArticleCanadian Officials Get Flood Imaging Help From New Space Station Camera
*Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online* A new camera aboard the International Space Station (ISS) known as the ISS SERVIR Environmental Research and Visualization System (ISERV) is...
View ArticleInterview with American design guru Buckminster Fuller: From the archive, 4...
Fuller was in London shortly before his death. During his visit he talked to Richard Boston about his passion for design and architecture Buckminster Fuller's many inventions include the word Dymaxion....
View ArticleHBO's Global Warmed 'Vice': A Classic Case Of Climate Denial
Climate change denial reached new heights recently in the HBO series “Vice.” For uninformed viewers of the Bill Maher series, Season One, Episode Eight paints a picture of a static-climate earth,...
View ArticleSolar Plane: Making clean tech sexy, adventurous
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As We Approach 237
As we approach Independence Day 2013, this might be a good time to take stock on the American experience: where we are, where we came from, what we are supposed to be and what we have become,...
View ArticleEpic Journey To Come To An End
WASHINGTON (AP) — A revolutionary solar-powered plane is about to end a slow, symbolic journey across America by quietly buzzing the Statue of Liberty and landing in a city whose buildings often...
View ArticleAfter Systems Failure, Jason-1 Satellite Officially Decommissioned
*Michael Harper for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online* More than 11 years ago, NASA launched the Jason-1 ocean altimetry satellite into orbit in a joint venture with the Centre National d'Etudes...
View ArticleHow Stellar Magnetic Fields Affect The Chances Of Life Beyond Earth
*John P. Millis, PhD for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online* The presence of an atmosphere - among many other factors - is vital for the evolution of life as we know it on a planet. However, this...
View ArticleAstronomers Find Evidence Of Water Molecules In An Exoplanet's Atmosphere
*John P. Millis, Ph.D. for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online* Astronomers search for planets using several different techniques; the most popular of which is to measure how a star "wobbles." As the...
View ArticleEight 'Hot-Jupiter' Exoplanets Analyzed By Astronomers
*Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online* Astronomers studying eight exoplanets falling into the "hot-Jupiter" class suggest that winds and clouds play an important role in the atmospheric...
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