Md. students create self-destructing crab traps
In the Chesapeake Bay and elsewhere, abandoned crab traps continue to ensnare crabs, but some students in Maryland have invented a solution to the problem.
Engineering
Chicago lessons for tornado victims in Oklahoma
Like many of you, I have been extremely saddened to watch reports about the killer tornado Monday afternoon, which reduced buildings in Moore, Okla., to "sticks and bricks."
Kepler spacecraft in jeopardy, NASA says
A malfunction in one of the reaction wheels on NASA's Kepler spacecraft, which is searching for Earth-like planets orbiting stars besides the sun, may jeopardize the planet-search mission.
Mars orbiter finds evidence of dry ice snowfalls
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has detected carbon dioxide in clouds above the planet's surface, suggesting that dry ice may have fallen as "snow" to the planet's surface.
The Mars rover 'Curiosity' has landed safely
Some of the first images are now available from Curiosity, the Mars largest and most advanced Mars rover ever sent into space, which landed successfully on a flat surface late in the evening on Aug. 5.