On February 28, controllers put the rover into "minimal activity safe mode," when they switched the machine's operations to a backup computer after detecting malfunctions in the primary computer's flash memory.
NASA's Curiosity rover to be back online next week - 0 views
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The statement said the rover exited safe mode on Saturday and its high gain antenna went back online on Sunday.
Now Boston Dynamics' BigDog can lift and toss (w/ video) - 0 views
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BigDog has a new appendage to its torso that resembles a head.
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Boston Dynamics is giving BigDog an enhanced ability to rely on its entire body for throwing heavy objects around, with an appendage powerful enough to lift and throw the objects aside.
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the entire body goes to work with fancy step-work to throw fifty-pound objects over its shoulder,
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We Didn't Domesticate Dogs. They Domesticated Us. - 0 views
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hunting hypothesis, that humans used wolves to hunt, doesn't hold up either
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Humans were already successful hunters without wolves, more successful than every other large carnivore.
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The most common assumption is that some hunter-gatherer with a soft spot for cuteness found some wolf puppies and adopted them.
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Tiny Satellites' Big Mission: Going Beyond Earth Orbit | Space.com - 0 views
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Two CubeSats, designed by NASA's JPL and three university partners, are soon to go where no CubeSats have gone before: beyond Earth orbit.
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The space agency’s twin
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satellites,
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Scarred Duckbill Dinosaur Escaped T. Rex Attack - 0 views
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A scar on the face of a duckbill dinosaur received after a close encounter with a Tyrannosaurus rex is the first clear case of a healed dinosaur wound, scientists say.
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A teardrop-shaped patch of fossilized skin about 5 by 5 inches (12 by 14 centimeters) that was discovered with the creature's bones and is thought to have come from above its right eye
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The lucky dinosaur was an adult Edmontosaurus annectens, a species of duckbill dinosaur that lived
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Psychological Challenges of a Manned Mission to Mars - 0 views
Russia finds 'new bacteria' in Antarctic lake - 0 views
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Russian scientists believe they have found a wholly new type of bacteria in the mysterious subglacial Lake Vostok in Antarctica
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The samples obtained from the underground lake in May 2012 contained a bacteria which bore no resemblance to existing type
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"After putting aside all possible elements of contamination, DNA was found that did not coincide with any of the well-known types in the global database,"
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Solar Storm Blasting to Mars Shuts Down Curiosity - 1st Rocky Sample Results on tap - 0 views
Curiosity sleeps as solar blast races toward Mars - 0 views
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Scientists say a solar eruption was detected on March 5, 2013
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headed toward Mars
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Curiosity rover will postpone some activities but other Mars missions will operate normally
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Particle looking 'more and more' like Higgs, LHC scientists say - 0 views
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in the latest update, physicists told a conference in La Thuile, Italy, that more analysis is needed before a definitive statement can be made
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Key to a positive identification of the particle is a detailed analysis of its properties and how it interacts with other particles
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Since scientists' announcement last July that they had found a particle likely to be the Higgs, much data has been analysed, and its properties are becoming clearer
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