Heavy metal contamination in agricultural soils is a growing global threat — but scientists may have found a sustainable ...

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has announced a new way to reliably make element 116, livermorium. The results, made by ...

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Soaring international gold prices are driving up the price of mercury, a toxic metal key in illegal gold mining, to all-time ...

SAN JOAQUIN, Mexico -- A drill echoes through narrow tunnels deep within the mountain where miner Hugo Flores bores into rock ...

POTTSTOWN — Borough council is scheduled to vote Monday on a conditional use permit that would allow the former Mercury newspaper building to be converted into 25 apartments and a small retail shop.

The MESSENGER mission to Mercury discovered the unexpected presence of volatile elements – such as sulfur, sodium, chloride and even water hidden in permanently shadowed regions in craters near the ...

PHOENIX– One 3-point shot by Phoenix Mercury center Kathryn Westbeld with 6:15 left in the fourth quarter and a seven-point lead might not have seemed that big of a deal. But it mattered more than ...

The Phoenix Mercury have been on fire lately, as they have won their last five games. Everything clicking for them, and they are looking like a team that is gearing up for a deep playoff run. This has ...

Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo recommends discussing options with providers. The FDA, ADA and other organizations say the compound is safe except for high-risk groups. Florida Surgeon ...

Isaac Asimov (1920-1992), a legendary writer of science and science fiction, once noted in "The Solar System and Back," that the planet Mercury is rarely visible when it is truly dark. "I suspect, in ...