Software bug halts Curiosity: Nuke lab bot in safe mode

	Software bug halts Curiosity: Nuke lab bot in safe mode NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is parked in "safe mode" again after being laid low by a software bug. The fault was triggered by an unexpected command-file size, which the machine detected before it was too late. Curiosity self-portrait at Rocknest in the Gale ...
	NASA Spots Dust Particles on Moon's Surface Swinging A recent report by NASA showed that electrically charged spotted near shadowed craters have a tendency to jump over the shadowed region in addition to dwindling back and forth between sunlit areas on opposite sides. It has been observed by research ...
	New clues emerge on origin of Kepler's famous supernova After more than four centuries, latest data reveals that original supernova blast was more powerful than thought and took place farther away in space. Charles Cooper. by Charles Cooper. March 18, 2013 2:02 PM PDT Follow @coopeydoop. The remnant of ...
	Rising Temperatures May Cause More Katrinas Hurricanes that form in the Atlantic Ocean are expected to gain considerable strength as the global temperature continues to rise, a new study has found. Using modeling data focused on the conditions in which hurricanes form, a group of international ...
	Internet pioneers win first-ever Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering £1m award given to one person or a small team from any nationality who create 'a ground-breaking innovation in engineering that has been of global benefit to humanity.' Tue, Mar 19 2013 at 9:55 AM ...
	Shorter wings may help highway-dwelling cliff swallows avoid cars If you're a bird that likes to build mud nests in dangerous places, such as highway bridges and overpasses, how do you avoid fatal encounters with cars and trucks? You quickly get out of their way. And it helps if you have shorter wings, which allow for a more ...
	Inbreeding Common in Early Humans, Deformed Skull Suggests The evidence comes from fragments of an approximately 100,000-year-old human skull unearthed at a site called Xujiayao, located in the Nihewan Basin of northern China. The skull's owner appears to have had a now-rare congenital deformity that probably ...
	Behind the scenes at China's Congress The Parliaments of India and China couldn't be more different. India's democracy is often described with the adjectives messy, chaotic and raucous; the proceedings of Parliament fit that label (and on occasion, go far beyond those descriptions, as a recent ad ...
	Study: Plankton's absorption of CO2 higher than assumed A study into the chemical composition of marine plankton is challenging a long-held assumption on how much carbon dioxide the organisms consume. The study, published online Sunday in Nature Geoscience, calls into question the textbook ratio of carbon, ...
	Male Lions are Successful Ambush Hunters: Study Female lions were known from quite long to be excellent at hunting using their cooperative strategies but now a new study has suggested that male lions too are excellent ambush hunters. The researchers said that male lions take advantage of dense ...