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Sunspot 930 sent a powerful solar storm toward earth from an X3 class solar flare, and the unstable sunspot has a 35% chance of emitting more X class solar flares at any time. The solar storm resulting has the potential to damage satellites and expose passengers in high flying aircraft to excessive radiation. The astronauts aboard the space station took shelter in a radiation shielded area of the craft. Sunspot 930 began as an unusual ring shaped formation that exploded so violently that it sent a shock wave across the entire surface of the sun. It is now a massive sunspot three times the size of the earth. It is in the process of rotating away from earth, but if another flare takes place within the next 24 hours, its effects will be felt on earth.
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Synesthesia is the name of a condition in which your senses get crossed up and you see colors when listening to music or taste things while viewing shapes or words. It sounds like a problem you’d want solved, but many people with this condition wouldn’t trade it for anything.

In LiveScience.com, Ker Than quotes UK researcher Julia Simner as saying, “I think if you took a straw poll of 100 synesthetes, 96 would say they would never ever lose their synesthesia, that they like it and are glad to have it. Some say it is like having a nose or a little finger: It’s just there.”
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We’ve asked this question before: why don’t we make more effort to break our bad habits? A new study of 154 smokers who had surgery to remove early stage lung cancer shows that half of them STARTED SMOKING AGAIN within 12 months of their operation, and more than one-third were smoking again after a year. 60% of the patients who started smoking again picked up a cigarette within two months of surgery.

Researcher Mark S. Walker says, “These patients are all addicted, so you cannot assume they will easily change their behavior simply because they have dodged this particular bullet. Their choices are driven by insidious cravings for nicotine.”
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The recent retreat of Arctic sea ice is likely to accelerate so rapidly that in a little over 20 years, as early as 2040, the Arctic Ocean could become nearly devoid of ice during the summer, as a result of global warming.

Scenarios run on supercomputers by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) show that the amount of sea ice each September could be reduced so abruptly that, within about 20 years, it may begin retreating four times faster than at any time in the past that we’re aware of. NCAR researcher Marika Holland says, “?Our research suggests that the decrease over the next few decades could be far more dramatic than anything that has happened so far. These changes are surprisingly rapid.
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