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Mercury has a layer of diamond 10 miles thick, NASA spacecraft finds
Using data from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, scientists have determined that a 10-mile-thick diamond mantle may lie beneath ...
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Here's The Popular Fish With The Lowest Mercury Levels
A liquid metal, mercury is found in Earth's crust, where it clings to rocks and coal. Naturally occurring events like a volcano eruption can release mercury into the atmosphere, where it gets into ...
Penguins are Antarctica’s walking, squawking mercury meters
‘Happy Feet’ and ‘Madagascar’ were fun films but it seems there’s something about penguins they didn’t tell us. According to new research, their moulted feathers are a good indicator of the extent to ...