ESA Gaia Mission Lifts Off For Five-Year Galaxy Mapping Mission
*Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online* The long-anticipated mission of ESA’s Milky Way mapper has finally launched. Set to image the galaxy with its billion-pixel camera, Gaia...
View ArticleVideo: Samsung’s marketing monster snags World Cup icons for Galaxy ad
Soccer fans worldwide may appreciate Samsung’s first complete Galaxy 11 promo video that was finally released, showing an entire team of renowned players that have joined forces to play a football game...
View ArticleScientists solve a decades-old mystery in the Earth's upper atmosphere
New research published in the journal Nature resolves decades of scientific controversy over the origin of the extremely energetic particles known as ultra-relativistic electrons in the Earth's...
View ArticleWhy Halley's Comet May Be Linked to Famine 1,500 Years Ago
The ancients had ample reason to view comets as harbingers of doom, it would appear. A piece of the famous Halley's comet likely slammed into Earth in A.D. 536, blasting so much dust into the...
View ArticleNew NanoMakets Report States that LED Phosphor Shipments to Reach 800 Million...
The report says that despite this growth, Chinese competition and the fall in rare earth prices are hitting phosphor prices hard. As a result, the phosphor market will reach just $442 million ($US) in...
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Rare Element's 2013 Drill Program Further Expands Bear Lodge Rare Earth Resource
LAKEWOOD, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rare Element announces 2013 drilling resulted in the contained total rare earth oxide (TREO) at the Whitetail Ridge deposit increasing by nearly 80%, resulting in a...
View Article'Gaia' Star-Mapping Space Probe Lifts Off Aboard Russian Rocket
BERLIN (AP) — The European Space Agency successfully launched its star-surveying satellite Gaia into space Thursday in a bid to produce the most accurate three-dimensional map of the Milky Way, and...
View ArticleNaviStar, to Navigate in Your Artery
A breakthrough in medical technology facilitates cardiac ablation for atrial fibrillation cases. With a magnetic irrigated-tip made of rare earth magnet, surgeons can now remotely navigate in the...
View ArticleHalley's Comet Played Role In Ancient Global Famine, Ice Core Study Suggests
SAN FRANCISCO — The ancients had ample reason to view comets as harbingers of doom, it would appear. A piece of the famous Halley's comet likely slammed into Earth in A.D. 536, blasting so much dust...
View ArticleWhere's the Lorax When We Need Him?
It's a shame that the Lorax and his message "Who Will Speak For The Trees" has been relegated to the realm of children's cartoons and fantasy. Especially as trees, forests and ecosystems appear to be...
View Article'Barrel Bomb' Terror: What I Saw in a Syrian Border Hospital
I recently returned from a visit to the Syrian border, where I often heard refugees speak in hushed tones of "al-barmeel.""What is it?" I asked. When I heard the answer, I wished I had never asked the...
View ArticleDeclaration on the Well-Being of NYC's Children
Written by the New York City Advisory Council on Child Well-Being. See full list at bottom of the page. The New York City Advisory Council on Child Well-Being endorses Mayor-elect Bill De Blasio's call...
View ArticleErick Erick Erick Erickson’s Fire & Brimstone Jesus Jamboree Channel Changing...
Most Holy Reverend Bishop Parson Erick An Infinite Number Of Ericks Erickson, who was personally put on Earth by Jesus to call retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter a “goat fucking child...
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10 Most Memorable Movie Characters From 2013
This post started as a list of my 10 favorite movies of 2013. (The Coen Brothers' "Inside Llewyn Davis" was number one, you weren't wondering.) Somehow, though, it morphed into my favorite characters...
View ArticleNovel Technique Aims To Measure Mass Of Distant Exoplanets
*Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online* A new technique developed by a team at MIT could help scientists determine the mass of exoplanets, using just their transmission spectra....
View ArticleSoccer Stars Unite to Save Earth in Apocalyptic Samsung Ad
Take the basic premise of Space Jam, swap basketball for soccer and add the production value of Armageddon. What do you get? This creative new Samsung ad The spot cooks up a fictitious scenario in...
View ArticleCuriosity’s Historic 2013 Journey, A Story Worth Telling
*Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online* With a new year around the corner, redOrbit decided to take a look back at NASA’s most-prized rover’s accomplishments over the past year, looking...
View ArticleNEOWISE Returns To Service After Reactivation
*April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online* NASA's Near-Earth Orbit Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer spacecraft, or NEOWISE for short, made the most comprehensive survey to date of...
View ArticleLack of Expansion of the Universe Confirmed at Five Scientific Meetings in...
The historical, theoretical and experimental evidence on the lack of expansion of the universe was confirmed at five scientific meetings in Europe and in the Far East...
View ArticleScientists Discover New Surprising Details About Table Salt
*April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online* An international team of scientists has discovered a surprise hidden in the first chemical compound that children learn about: table salt. Under...
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