Research by Rice University Earth scientists suggests that virtually all of Earth’s life-giving carbon could have come from a collision about 4.4 billion years ago between Earth and an embryonic planet similar to Mercury. In a new study this week in Nature Geoscience, Rice petrologist Rajdeep Dasgupta and colleagues offer a new answer to a long-debated geological question: ...
Demeter, the Goddess of Agriculture, is one of the largest and oldest goddesses of the ancient Greek pantheon. She was the daughter of Cronus and Rhea, and sister of Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto, Hera, and Hestia. As her name suggests, Demeter is Mother Earth. Demeter is the goddess of fertility, protector of farming and crops in ...
New research shows that concentrations of the toxic element mercury in rivers and fjords connected to the Greenland Ice Sheet are comparable to rivers in industrial China, an unexpected finding that is raising questions about the effects of glacial melting in an area that is a major exporter of seafood. Jon Hawkings, a postdoctoral researcher ...
A multinational team of scientists has discovered mercury accumulation in the deepest trenches of the Pacific Ocean that exceeds any value ever recorded in remote marine sediments — even higher than many areas directly contaminated by industrial releases. A newly released scientific paper in Nature Publishing’s Scientific Reports Journal has revealed unprecedented amounts of highly toxic mercury ...
Going on a heavy metal detox is all in vogue now. When consuming foods of varying types, people are becoming more aware of things that are getting inside their bodies. A lot of ailments, toxins, and infections are food-borne. Foods with more than the permissible amount of heavy metals can be harmful to human health. ...
It is already hard to believe that there is ice on Mercury, where daytime temperatures reach 400°C, or 750°F. Now, an upcoming study says that the Vulcan heat on the planet closest to the S°un likely helps make some of that ice. As with Earth, asteroids delivered most of Mercury’s water, the scientific consensus holds. ...
Hong Kong’s Consumer Council has found that the tuna being sold in the region contains excessive amounts of the heavy metal mercury. Of the 50 sashimi samples tested, 49 confirmed the presence of the toxic compound. Of the 19 tuna samples, 10 contained amounts of mercury far beyond the expected levels. One tuna and sashimi ...
Mercury, the smallest planet in our solar system, is reportedly shrinking. It is estimated that the planet’s diameter has contracted by almost 14 kilometers since it was first formed almost 4 billion years ago. Mercury, a shrinking planet Earth’s massive mountains and steep cliffs are said to be the result of colliding tectonic plates. But ...
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