Rover roadblocks
Hundreds of unsolved problems could delay the lift-off of NASA’s next rover, the Mars Science Laboratory, by two years and add more than $500 million to its cost, the agency’s inspector general said in a report last week. NASA says it is still “very confident” it will meet its launch window, which opens in November.
Tornado’s disease toll
At least three survivors of the tornado that tore through Joplin, Missouri, on 22 May have since died from mucormycosis. State health officials say most of those struck by the fungal disease had sustained serious wounds in the tornado, and…
