New-cycle sunspot group 1007 emerges
After two-plus years of few sunspots, even fewer solar flares, and a generally eerie calm, the sun is finally showing signs of life.

Heat from infrared through ultraviolet wavelengths
 
The key to understanding Earth’s evolution, including how our atmosphere gained oxygen and how volcanoes and earthquakes form, is to look deep, really deep, into the lower mantle—a region some 400 to 1,800 miles (660 to 2,900 kilometers) below the surface.

 
Looks Like Green Rock Candy
Shock waves around dusty, young stars might be creating the raw materials for planets, according to new observations from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.

Don’t Eat Dirt Though!
A teaspoon of dirt contains an estimated 10,000 species of bacteria, but it’s only one percent of these microbial bugs — the ones that can be grown easily in a lab — that have brought us antibiotics, anticancer agents and other useful drugs.

 A Safer New World For Women
The world’s first radar breast imaging system developed at Bristol University that could revolutionise the way women are scanned for breast cancer, is being trialled at North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT)…

Lucky for us there is many different Genres
Listening to your favorite music may be good for your cardiovascular system. Researchers have shown for the first time that the emotions aroused by joyful music have a healthy effect on blood vessel function…

 
I Really Don’t Want To Swallow This One
Scientists have developed a device they call the intelligent pill, or “iPill”. No, it doesn’t make you smarter. This pill is actually designed to release medication to specific areas of the body.
Dutch group Philips, which is one of the world’s biggest hospital equipment makers, state that the pill [...]

 (Left) Isia Leviant’s Enigma. Most viewers say the purple rings appear to fill with rapid illusory motion. (Right) A simplified version that the researchers used in the study. Most viewers report illusory motion lengthwise along the gray stripe.
When viewing the famous optical illusion painting Enigma by Isia Leviant, many people claim to see motion within [...]

 
Now You Can Really Get Into The Game
Hey football fans: You have your giant screen, there’s plenty of yelling – make the stadium effect complete with the Football Stadium Desktop Floodlight. Its six 25-watt E14 bulbs will ensure a minimum of fumbles, and if your playing field is a bit too bright, hook the thing [...]

 
How Did They Find Room For Food
I always heard it from my dad growing up: your kids will get to play with way cooler toys than you. Well, I don’t have any kids yet, but I’m already getting jealous looking at this space station kid’s meal toy being offered by Chick-fil-A and the Kennedy Space [...]

 Rare footage of harvesting spaghetti the old fashioned way
In this b&w clip, first broadcast on BBC Panorama on 1st April 1957, a very young Richard Dimbleby revealed the wonderful world of Swiss spaghetti production to millions of deprived and hungry post-war Brits.

 
 Sarah’s Smash Shack
If you are human, you have probably at some point been so frustrated you felt the need to break something to relieve the tension. Sarah’s Smash Shack , in San Diego, California, provides a service to consumers that allows them to salvage their personal possessions, and break someone else’s.

 
Now here’s a system I can get behind: turning trash into energy via the magic of plasma. Yep, it kills two birds with one stone, and it’s coming soon. The first plasma plant in the country is being planned for St. Lucie County in Florida, where it’ll use 10,000 degree plasma to vaporize 1,500 tons [...]

 
 
Put this USB drive in your laptop and you may get some kind of tech surprise in about nine months.

 
The Fueltank 
The Fueltank is a charging device that actually has good looks. It’s from tech company Callpod and it allows you to charge two small electronic devices at the same time without the use of an outlet. Which makes it perfect for travel, when you need to charge your gadgets the most.

 
Pop art… literally!
It’s amazing what you can do with time to spare and a lot of soft drink cans. See the full image after the jump.
 

 
 Looks like a calculator, works like a credit card
An Australian technology firm has come up with a unique battery power super card, which they believe can fight online fraud.

 
The same day that Ford and General Motors announced catastrophic third-quarter losses, Dean Kamen was showing off his new electric car. The prototype vehicle, a zippy two-seat hatchback designed with more than a passing resemblance to the Volkswagen Beetle, can go about 60 miles on a single charge of its lithium battery and with practically [...]