Last week people more than half of the US were able to see the aurora borealis due to a recent coronal mass ejection. (Scientific American)

China has launched the second rocket carrying parts of its space station program. This time they are hoping to complete their first space docking. (Fox News)

Scientists have announced that they will redo the neutrino experiments that led to a faster than light reading. (PC Mag)

The internal organs of pythons will expand to help speed up digestion. Recently scientists have found out why. As it turns out, when a python eats it releases a high quantity of a specific lipid into it’s blood stream which causes the organs to grow. To verify the hypotheses, they injected rat heart cells, then a live rat with these lipids and the rat’s heart grew. In case you’re worried about the health implications of this much fat, no it doesn’t cause a hardening of the arteries or other problems. (National Geographic)

Most asteroids are in very poor shape, having been broken to bits by numerous collisions, however 21 Lutetia appears to be in one piece and it’s denser than granite. (New Scientist)

A draft report from the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission suggests that hackers working on behalf of the Chinese military gained access to US government satellites on four occasions in 2007 and 2008. It’s unknown what was done to the satellites, but in the 2 – 12 minutes the hackers were in the system they could have done severe damage to the satellites. (The Inquirer)