Categories Science Science News: 8/7/12 Post author By [E] Hillary Post date Tuesday, August 7th, 2012 8 Comments on Science News: 8/7/12 The Curiosity has landed! Mars, y’all!! And, you know, some other stuff happened too. Tags African San, Antarctica, artifacts, breast cancer, Britanny Wenger, cataract surgery, Dinosaurs, extinction, geology, Google Science Fair, great white sharks, Higgs boson, hip fractures, humpback whales, Mars Curiosity rover, mitochondrial DNA, moon, NASA, pertussis, whooping cough