How hardcore a gambler are you? Would you like to wager a bit of money on some things like this? ;-)

Betting on the greatest unsolved problems in the universe is no longer the preserve of academic superstars such as Stephen Hawking. From Thursday anyone will be able to place bets on whether the biggest physics experiments in the world will come good before 2010.

Wow this is really cool, astronomers have found a "Super sized Earth"... Well it's suppose to be the first detection of a rocky planet.

The new planet orbits about 13 million kilometres from mu Arae, with a year lasting only 9.5 Earth days, and it has about 14 times the mass of Earth. That gives it about the same mass as Uranus, the smallest giant planet in our Solar System.