What's shiny, liquid, conducts electricity and is also the surname of a legendary rock star? You guessed it, mercury. This ...

India’s first liquid mirror telescope is up and running. It’s the first and largest liquid mercury telescope to be built at a high altitude, and if that isn’t impressive enough, it is also the first ...

LAVAL, Quebec, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Telescopes that collect cosmic light using giant mirrors made of liquid mercury are a promising technology may significantly lower the high cost of making scientific ...

After six years of pain-staking archeological work inside of Teotihuacan's famed Pyramid of the Plumed Serpent in Mexico, researchers have come across a curious discovery that may bring them one step ...

Today’s 8-meter class, optical telescope mirrors are such expensive glass behemoths that when actually moved to their mountaintop vistas, they frequently arrive with helicopter escorts. Local ...

This metal can exist in all three states as a liquid, a vapor and a solid. And this toxic substance might be lurking inside ...

A science YouTuber showed that an anvil easily floats in a tub of mercury. Mercury is cool, but its wild danger level has kept it out of a lot of cool applications. The secret is density, which makes ...

Mercury is hot stuff. That’s the conclusion of a new radar study demonstrating that the core of the solar system’s innermost planet is at least partially molten. The finding settles a long-simmering ...

Broken thermometers are the cause of numerous calls to the Poison Center. Thermometers with a silver line contain elemental mercury. Thermometers with a red or blue liquid do NOT contain mercury.

FREMONT – Following a tip, the Sandusky County Emergency Management Agency confiscated more than 35 pounds of liquid mercury on Jan. 21 from someone who had the poisonous substance for sale on ...

Liquid Mercury, a leading technology provider for digital asset marketplaces and crypto trading, announced today that it is entering into a strategic partnership with dVIN Labs (dVIN), a startup whose ...