Archive for April 2010
NASA reveals new stunning images of the Sun
More than three months after being hurled into orbit, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory is snapping some breathtaking images of the Sun, the first of which NASA released this afternoon. The mission designers have to be happy with them: the pics capture huge looping prominences lashing out from the surface and the kinds of massive explosions
Scientists find new species of lizard with double penis
Scientists have discovered a species of giant lizard as long as a full-grown man is tall and endowed with a double penis. The secretive but brightly-coloured beast, a monitor lizard, is a close cousin of the Komodo Dragon of Indonesia. Unlike the fearsome Dragon, it is not a carnivore, nor does it feast on rotting
