Thimerosal, which contains and organic compound of mercury, has mostly been phased out as a preservative for vaccines. Here's ...

Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...

A research team has synthesized three-dimensionally shaped molecules containing an internal twist and shown that they possess ...

What happens when mercury comes into contact with aluminum? The result is one of the most visually striking and ...

Diving into one of the most mesmerizing and mysterious elements on the periodic table: Mercury (Hg). Known for being the only ...

The key cascade energy structure was tailored, and its impacts on photocatalysis were unveiled by using both spectroscopic experiments and theoretical calculations. The precise molecular design ...

HgTe colloidal quantum dots are synthesized with high monodispersivity with sizes up to ∼15 nm corresponding to a room temperature absorption edge at ∼5 μm. The shape is tetrahedral for larger sizes ...

Mercury has a compositionally diverse surface that was produced by different periods of igneous activity suggesting heterogeneous mantle sources. Understanding the structure of Mercury's mantle formed ...