Moon mush?a type of slush?exists beneath the surface of the moon, according to a team led by James Williams at NASA?s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. New calculations developed by the British mathematician Augustus Love reveal how the Moon?s surface and interior react to the gravitational pull of the Earth and the Sun.
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Astronauts on board the International Space Station may soon be able to experience the elaborate rituals of the Japanese tea ceremony. Japan?s National Space Development Agency (NASDA) is planning to include a 13 square foot tearoom in Japan?s section of
?Space travel is psychologically difficult so the idea is to provide a calm place where astronauts can relax,? says NASDA spokesperson Yoshihiro Nakamura.
But a space-based tea ceremony could not be conducted in the usual manner. The traditional ceremony is a formal affair, in which kimono-clad, elegant women prepare green tea for honored guests, which will be hard to accomplish in a zero-gravity environment.
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Scientists believe they have solved the mystery of how Stone Age workers, armed only with antler picks and bone shovels, could have created the largest and most impressive prehistoric structure in Western Europe. Silbury Hill is a 120 foot high chalk mound formed in a Wiltshire valley in England around 4,500 years ago, in the middle of what is now crop circle country.
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Alien cultures more advanced than our own have spotted us by now, say astronomers. Within 15 years, our own next-generation telescopes will be searching the skies for the tell-tale rainbows from inhabited planets.
?Our own Earth has been putting out a signal for a billion years,? says astronomer Roger Angel of the University of Arizona in Tucson. ?Any civilization slightly more advanced than our own would know there was life on this planet.?
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