Cassini Captures High-Res Video Of Saturn’s Hexagonal Jet Stream
*redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online* NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has recorded the highest-resolution video to date of a unique six-sided jet stream located near Saturn’s north pole,...
View ArticleNASA Releases New Climate App
*Brett Smith for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online * NASA recently announced the release of a new iPad app, called “Images of Change,” that allows users to see how a changing climate and natural...
View ArticleThe Bumper Book of Dinosaurs
'Pregnant camels ordinarily sit down carefully. Perhaps their joints creak!' OK, it's not his original mnemonic to help remember geological eras, but just about everything else in his remarkably...
View ArticleGori Tere Pyaar Mein
Sriram Venkat (Imran Khan) is the most shallow guy on earth who doesn't value relationships, family, friends, life or the country. Not necessarily in that order. Because he couldn't care less about the...
View ArticleNew Smartphone Satellite Ready To Do Some Science
*Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online* NASA announced on Wednesday that its next generation smartphone cubesat has completed its checkout and sent back data to the space agency, showing...
View ArticleGreenland Minerals and Energy completes Kvanefjeld process engineering
Greenland Minerals and Energy (ASX: GGG) has completed the key process engineering design under the Feasibility Study for its Kvanefjeld multi-element project in Greenland. Metallurgical flowsheets for...
View ArticleLooking Back At Fifteen Years Of International Space Station Research
*NASA* The first two modules of the International Space Station -- the Russian-built Zarya, meaning "sunrise" in Russian, and Unity -- were named to recognize their place in history. The mating of...
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NASA's Tiny New Communications Satellite Gets in Touch with Earth
Officials with the American space agency say that one of their latest satellites to be launched in low-Earth orbit, called PhoneSat 2.4, has just gotten in touch with Earth. The diminutive spacecraft...
View ArticleReversing Climate Change Cannot Be Accomplished Via Geoengineering
*Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online* Geoengineering the climate has been suggested as a way to help lessen the impact of climate change, but new research published in Earth System...
View ArticleWarner Bros. Consumer Products and Cryptozoic Entertainment Partner For The...
Desolation of Smaug, Follow-Up to The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Board Game Release, Coming Dec. 20th 2013 Irvine, CA (PRWEB) December 05, 2013 Warner Bros. Consumer Products and Cryptozoic...
View ArticleTeen rushed to surgery after swallowing potentially deadly Buckyballs -...
Christin Rivas, 14, swallowed two Buckyballs accidentallyThe tiny, spherical rare-earth magnets can perforate the stomach and are particularly dangerous if more than one is ingestedChristin Reported by...
View ArticleTeen Rushed to Surgery After Swallowing Rare-Earth Magnets
Rare-earth magnets pose "unique health hazards to children," causing perforation of the volulus or bowel, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Since 2003, one death and 19...
View ArticleGreen Elephants: The Famous Conservatives Vocally Supporting Clean Energy
*Why Conservatives love clean energy**Efficiency and Competition* The costs of technologies like solar have dropped meteorically over the past few years, making renewables efficient and reliable. More...
View ArticleNew Instrument Continues To Gather Effects Of The Sun On Earth
*NASA* Maintaining a record of solar measurements is important in understanding the sun's effect on Earth and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA), Total solar irradiance...
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Here's The Best View Ever Of Saturn's Mysterious 'Hexagon'
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured the highest-resolution view of Saturn's "hexagon"— a wavy jet stream at the planet's north polar region, spanning roughly 20,000 miles across. "The hexagon is...
View ArticleThis Time-Lapse Of The Earth From The ISS Is Just...WOW!
Just about any view from the International Space Station is spectacular--and perhaps that's not surprising since the ISS orbits Earth at a speed of 5 miles per second, 240 miles above our planet's...
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Walk Off The Earth Performing 'Little Drummer Boy' With Dogs Is Ridiculously...
The holiday season always brings cheer, gifts, joy and ... Christmas music covers! Bands everywhere are starting to come out with their seasonal tunes, but few musical numbers feature yuletide pups....
View ArticleBing Maps Preview is Microsoft's answer to Google Earth
Microsoft debuted a true analogue to Google Earth on Thursday, launching a Bing Maps Preview app for Windows 8.1 that moves Maps into true 3D. The new app, available in the Windows Store, even launches...
View ArticleMust-have Tolkien Books: 14 Holiday Gifts For Any Middle-earth Lover's Library
Here's the thing about us Tolkien fanatics: we just can't get enough books about that place called Middle-earth. If you have a friend, relative or loved one who has a passion for The Hobbit or The Lord...
View ArticleRare-Earth Magnets Swallowed Lead to Emergency Surgery for Girl, 14
A 14-year-old girl who swallowed six powerful rare-earth magnets was rushed to surgery, and luckily doctors were able to remove the magnets before they damaged her intestines. Reported by Newsmax 7...
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