Mercury News
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Hours before the EPA put almost all of its 14,000 workers on furlough because of the government shutdown, the Agency announced its latest measure to preserve coal-fired power in the United States.
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Rising country artist Travis Denning released his new single "David Ashley Parker From Powder Springs" on Mercury Nashville.
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According to a new study published this month, there may be more than 15 million gallons of toxic mercury buried in the permafrost of the Northern Hemisphere. As the permafrost melts, all that mercury will be released.
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By AFP
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Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran was nominated Thursday for the prestigious Mercury Prize for his third album "Divide", going up against breakthrough grime star Stormzy and former winners Alt-J and The xx.
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Mercury has long been regarded as one of the Solar System’s more mysterious planets. Despite decades of observations by astronomers new points of interest appear. The latest is with the planet’s great valley.
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Melbourne -
Scientists have detected traces of methylmercury (a dangerous neurotoxin) in sea ice floating in the Southern Ocean. This presents a risk to seabirds and other marine life.
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By AFP
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Astronomers are preparing for one of the highlights of the skywatchers' year, when the Sun, Mercury and Earth all line up -- a phenomenon that happens just a dozen or so times per century.
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On Monday, starting at 7:00 a.m. ET, astronomy buffs and stargazers will get a chance to observe (carefully, I might add), a rare celestial event when Mercury passes in front of our Sun.
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Astronomers have long wondered why there are no planets closer to the Sun than Mercury. To have planets closer is common with many stars. The answer might be due to Jupiter having once been located closer to our star, suggests a new theory.
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An image of a cancelled Microsoft tablet project has appeared online, revealing the company once worked on something very different from the metal Surfaces of today. Mercury is a bright and bold device with a design drawn from Lumia phones.
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Unilever is being urged compensate the workers struggling to rebuild their lives from an alleged toxic mercury spill. Meanwhile, rapper Sofia Ashraf has released a song to bring attention to the campaign.
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NASA’s long-trekking Messsenger spacecraft plunged to its destruction April 30 after running out of fuel on its 4,105th orbit of the planet Mercury.
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Sacramento -
After the severest measles outbreak in decades occurred earlier this year, California lawmakers approved a bill this week that would prevent most parents from opting out of vaccinations for their children enrolled in school.
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Research indicates that mercury pollution has risen around 50-fold in the feathers of a rare Arctic bird over the past 130 years. Conservationists are concerned for the bird’s future.
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A community of algae, bacteria and other natural matter living on submerged surfaces transform mercury pollution into a more toxic form of the metal. This worrying development has been found from a study in New Hampshire.
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A team of NASA scientists has found that strong mixing of air above cracked Arctic sea ice actually pulls down atmospheric mercury. This could lead to increased water contamination as a result.
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San Francisco -
Alarming figures suggest that that toxic remnants of the infamous gold rush will seep into San Francisco area waterways for millennia.
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Singer James Blake has won this year's Barclaycard Mercury Prize with his second album, 'Overgrown'. The Mercury prize is a U.K. award given to less-mainstream artists.
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Arctic foxes living on a small island in the Bering Sea are being harmed due to the marine animals they eat being contaminated with mercury.
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Scientists say they have discovered what could be the first known meteorite from Mercury. Scientist Anthony Irving, speaking said at the 44th annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference said that a rock found last year could have come from Mercury.
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Boston -
Mercury is usually a planet that does not garner a whole lot of attention, but NASA recently revealed a new series of photos that shed some colorful light on the often ignored planet.
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Ottawa -
As of Jan. 2014, a new federal law will ban the sale of standard incandescent bulbs in Canada. Instead, consumers will have to purchase energy-efficient lightbulbs, which contain high levels of mercury, something the country is unprepared for.
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The World Health Organization agrees to support a new international coordination to reduce the impact of mercury pollution and exposure.
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The European Union is spending in excess of €10,000 million per year cleaning up mercury pollution, according to a new study.
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New discoveries by a NASA spacecraft support the long-held theory that Mercury has abundant water ice and other frozen materials in its permanently shadowed polar craters.
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New research shows how Thimerosal, the preservative in vaccines, causes damage. Some vaccines still contain it. Supplements and nutrients could prevent the damage.
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Parents are advised to ask for an ingredient list for vaccines before vaccinating their children, as it has been revealed to be a myth that vaccines no longer contain mercury.
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Scientists analysing data from a space probe that took pictures of Mercury have announced that they have discovered what appears to be ice on the closest planet to the sun.
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The cause of the recall of an estimated 128,616 vehicles appears to be faulty wheel studs, which may fracture leading to the possibility of wheels separating from cars.
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Sushi lovers wondering about mercury levels in fish can now search for those levels with the new “Safe Sushi” smartphone app, thanks to the largest environmental advocacy group in the U.S.
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Mercury Image
Country singer and Mercury Records Nashville recording artist Kacey Musgraves Photo Courtesy of Kelly Christine Musgraves
A transiting planet causes a drop in the sun's brightness. The subtle change on the light curve can calculated. NASA
New color maps of Mercury. NASA.gov
Microsoft's cancelled 'Mercury' tablet, acquired from Nokia @evleaks
Mercury, elemental symbol HM Detox
These images of Mercury were taken onboard the MESSENGER spacecraft, the first ever to orbit the innermost planet. NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
This diagram shows the approximate relative sizes of the terrestrial planets, from left to right: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. Distances are not to scale. NASA Mercury image: JHUAPL Venus image: JPL Mars image: HST
Artist's rendering, from NASA, of the constituent spacecraft of the European Space Agency's BepiColombo mission, in their cruise phase configuration. The Mercury Planetary Orbiter on the left and the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter on the right, with a sunshade module at center. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Extremely fast particles from the sun hit Mercury NASA/TU Wein
Video still showing Mercury(II) thiocyanate decomposition in action Screenshot
Maps of Northern Hemisphere permafrost zones for four soil layers: 0–30 cm, 0–100 cm, 0–300 cm, and permafrost derived by multiplying maps of carbon from Hugelius, Tarnocai, et al. (2013) and Hugelius et al. Geophysical Research Letters
An artist's representation of a body about the size of our moon colliding at great speed with a planet the size of Mercury. NASA
Wollastonite image with coin to indicate color USGS
Coastal erosion reveals the extent of ice-rich permafrost underlying active layer on the Arctic Coastal Plain in the Teshekpuk Lake Special Area of the National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska. Image was taken on July 1, 2011. Brandt Meixell/U.S. Geological Survey
The faint disk of Mercury on the disk of the Sun. This was the may 7, 003 transit of Mercury. European Southern Observatory
The November 15, 1999 Mercury Transit as seen by the Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) spacecraft. NASA
A statue of Mercury in the Vatican; the fig leaf was added later. Creative Commons
The historic first image of the surface of the planet Mercury taken by NASA's Messenger NASA
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