Researchers led by Brown geologist Alberto Saal analyzed lunar volcanic glasses, such these gathered by the Apollo 15 mission, and used a new analytic technique to detect water. The discovery strongly suggests that water has been a part of the Moon since its early existence – and perhaps since it was first created.

The discovery may force scientists to rethink the lunar past and future, although uncertainty remains about how much water exists and whether future explorers could extract it.

The water was found inside volcanic glass beads, which represent solidified magma from the early moon’s interior. The news swept through much of the scientific community even before being detailed in the journal Nature this week.

Read the full article at LiveScience or search the NASA website.

Are you tired of the standard Ubuntu distro’s look and feel? If yes, the following should definitely add some new flavours to your desktop. However, it might also add a lot more (un)wanted attention as well…

Whether you are a hobby Satanist or just like dark colours (I hope the latter) then the “Ubuntu Satanic Edition - Linux for the Damned” would be the one for you. A collection of screenshots are available or you can go straight to the downloads.

For the rest (of us) there’s always the Ubuntu Christian Edition.

Revetec, a little known company from the Gold Coast region of Australia, may be on to something huge: they’ve created an engine that is 50% smaller, 50% lighter, has 50% lower emissions and is cheaper to manufacture than a conventional internal combustion engine of the same horsepower.

The prototype vehicle is shown above. You can read more about this “green invention” here and here.

Mozilla has set up a page so you can monitor the Guiness World Record attempt real-time. Click the screenshot below to visit:

More than 7 million downloads so far and counting… (Opera 9.5 used 5 days to reach 4.7 millions…)

A demo of an experimental UI for Mobile Firefox by Aza Raskin, Head of UX for Mozilla Labs.

See azarask.in/blog/post/firefox-mobile-concept-video for more information.