Tag: mercury

It's one of the most concerning chemicals for human health

It raises the possibility that other melting glaciers are behaving the same way.

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the hottest of them all?

There's also a whirly-dirly corollary associated with this new method.

In the Canadian Arctic, mercury isn't rising only in thermometers.

Another problem caused by climate change.

Are you breaking up with us, Sun?!

Who would expect water on the nearest planet to the Sun?

A mutant success story.

Scientists found several faults with its application.

NASA just released the first ever topographic model of Mercury, the planet closest to the Sun.

When the MESSENGER spacecraft found carbon rich material on Mercury, researchers were surprised and couldn't quite explain the source. Now, ...

Purple Non Sulfur Bacteria may play a role in reducing the amount of methyl-mercury in the oceans by converting it ...

The MESSENGER spacecraft spent four years orbiting Mercury, gathering valuable information and sending it back to Earth. But even in ...

The Mercury level in tuna has been a subject of debate for decades now. Paul Drevnick, Assistant Research Scientist at ...

If you've always wanted to choose the name of stuff from outer space but never got the chance... now's your ...

Scientists have finished analyzing water samples taken from 12 oceanographic cruises from the past 8 years. Among other startling discoveries, ...

The Earth contains a lot of iron, but it is not alone in the solar system in that aspect. Venus, ...

Photo: Wikicommons Can you put a cost on pollution? Policy makers, not matter how some may deny it, are more ...

The fist planet from the sun is the unlikeliest place you'd expect to find water ice, but new tantalizing evidence beamed back ...

Besides ever thinning ice, permafrost melting, soot deposits, habitat loss, you might as well add another significant factor threatening the ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in collaboration with the  independent Environmental Integrity Project, have identified 20 new sites in the ...

The planet closest to the sun is very hot, yet very cold at the same time. It may even be ...

As reported earlier on Thursday morning, the Messenger NASA spacecraft was scheduled for an evening jump into Mercury's orbit through ...

After a six year journey in which it traveled over 6 billion miles, the Messenger spacecraft is finally anticipated to ...

The latest study conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) definitely poses a few question marks, to say the least; ...

MESSENGER is a spacecraft which recently made a flyby near Mercury and it gave scientists a whole new perspective over ...