Asteroid the size of a small truck buzzes Earth: NASA
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - An asteroid the size of a small truck zoomed past Earth four times closer than the moon on Saturday, the latest in a parade of visiting celestial objects that has...
View ArticleWill Smith jokes about 'After Earth' bombing at box office
Will Smith isn't letting a box office flop get him down. The "After Earth" star kept in good spirits on his visit to "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" on Friday, but admitted that he was uncomfortable with a film...
View ArticleMartian Dunes Show Signs Of Sledding Dry Ice
*[ Watch the Video: Dry Ice Moves on Mars ]* *April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online* Hunks of dry ice – carbon dioxide – may glide down Martian sand dunes like miniature hovercraft,...
View ArticleMartian Meteorite Contains Key Building Block Of Early Life
*Rebekah Eliason for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online* A Martian meteorite discovered in Antarctica was found to contain some of the early building blocks of life. The Antarctic Search for...
View ArticleNew Lightweight, Very Sunny Super-Earth Discovered
*Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online* Researchers writing in the Astrophysical Journal say they have discovered one very light and sunny super-Earth. Dubbed GJ3470b, the team says the...
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Air Force Weather Agency Selects Earth Networks’ Total Lightning Data and...
GERMANTOWN, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Earth Networks, the owner of WeatherBug, is providing global lightning data to the United States Air Force’s Air Force Weather Agency (AFWA) based at Offutt Air Force...
View ArticleMovie Review: After Earth
Rating: PG-13 (For sci-fi action violence and some disturbing images) Length: 100 minutes Release Date: May 31, 2013 Director: M. Night Shyamalan Genre: Action/AdventureMysteryStars: 3 out of 5 In the...
View Article'After Earth' wins number one spot at British box office
Will Smith's post-apocalyptic movie After Earth has wiped out the competition at the U.K. box office chart to debut at number one -- earning more than $3.4 million. Reported by abc4 1 day ago.
View ArticleThe Biggest Gold Mine on Earth
Filed under: Investing Expected to be the largest gold mine on the planet once it's completed, *Barrick Gold*'s Pascua-Lama mine recently saw the Chilean government halt construction. The company...
View Article11% After Earth
After Earth is dull, ploddingly paced exercise in sentimental sci-fi -- and the latest setback for director M. Night Shyamalan's once-promising career. Reported by Rotten Tomatoes 21 hours ago.
View ArticleUsing The Geological Record To Prepare For Future Megathrust Earthquakes
*redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online* In an attempt to better prepare for future massive “megathrust” earthquakes along the west coast of Canada, researchers have prepared a record...
View ArticlePain Free Living Will Have Magnetic Bracelets at North Beach Festival June 15-16
Superior Magnetics for Pain Free Living announces it will have magnetic bracelets for pain relief at North Beach Festival June 15-16 San Mateo, CA (PRWEB) June 13, 2013 Pain Free Living web:...
View ArticleMonograph Publishing Releases New Children’s Book About Worms and the...
Monograph Publishing: “Molly Green Likes Worms,” by Doss Brodhead Margiotta is a children’s book about Molly Green, a 6-year-old little girl who loves to help her Nana in the garden. Molly is very...
View ArticleEurekaMag.com Publishes 54 Thousand New References on Trace Elements in the...
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 ArticleMars' Atmosphere Is Constantly On The Move
*Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online* Researchers have discovered that temperatures in the Martian atmosphere regularly rise and fall twice a day. According to the findings published in...
View ArticleAnthropologist Makes First Ever Link Between Language Sounds And Geography
*Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online* Previous research has shown that the only effect an environment has on the development of a language is vocabulary. However, a new study published...
View ArticleWhy Seth Rogen Loves 'Idiots'
NEW YORK — The Earth has been coming to an end with comic frequency. We've seen tsunamis sweep the oceans ("2012"), the world freeze over ("The Day After Tomorrow") and a rogue planet bear down...
View ArticleHow Much Does The Arctic Contribute To Climate Change?
*From Becky Oskin, LiveScience Staff Writer:* Tons of carbon and methane lie under the Arctic tundra, trapped in ice. The frozen ground, called permafrost, covers nearly a quarter of the Northern...
View ArticleRebecca Solnit: The Far North of Experience
*In Praise of Darkness (and Light)* *Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com* One summer some years ago, on a peninsula jutting off another peninsula off the west coast of Iceland, I lived among strangers...
View ArticlePrecision Pulsar Positions Used By Astronomers To Break Record
*ASTRON* An international team of scientists led by astronomer Adam Deller (ASTRON) have used the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) to set a new distance accuracy record, pegging a pulsar called PSR...
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