News tagged with mercury
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Researchers reveal key to how bacteria clear mercury pollution
Mercury pollution is a persistent problem in the environment. Human activity has lead to increasingly large accumulations of the toxic chemical, especially in waterways, where fish and shellfish tend to act as sponges for ...
Oct 01, 2009 |
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MESSENGER Spacecraft Flies by Mercury
Shortly before 5:55 p.m. EDT, MESSENGER skimmed 228 kilometers (141 miles) above the surface of Mercury in its third and final flyby of the planet.
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Sep 30, 2009 |
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Space scientists set for final spacecraft flyby of Mercury
NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, which is toting an $8.7 million University of Colorado at Boulder instrument, will make its third and final flyby of Mercury on Sept. 29 -- a clever gravity-assist maneuver that ...
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Sep 28, 2009 |
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MESSENGER Spacecraft Prepares for Final Pass by Mercury
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging spacecraft known as MESSENGER will fly by Mercury for the third and final time on Sept. 29. The spacecraft will pass less ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 23, 2009 |
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Free online activity explains MESSENGER spacecraft's Mercury flyby on Sept. 29
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft will fly past the planet Mercury on Sept. 29, and a free online simulator created by staff at Montana State University's Burns Technology Center helps explain how ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 21, 2009 |
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Physicists Find a World of Motion In the Mystery of Aging Glass
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists super-cooled a liquid into glass in order to observe the slowing of particles. It's a material that still perplexes researchers despite thousands of years of household and industrial use.
Sep 19, 2009 |
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Gov't stands by as mercury taints water
(AP) -- Abandoned mercury mines throughout central California's rugged coastal mountains are polluting the state's major waterways, rendering fish unsafe to eat and risking the health of at least 100,000 ...
Sep 18, 2009 |
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Brookhaven Lab Patents New Method for Mercury Remediation
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have patented a new method to remove toxic mercury from soil, sediment, sludge and other industrial waste. As described in recently ...
Sep 15, 2009 |
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Oceanographers examine mercury levels of pelagic fish in Hawaii
In the open ocean, species of large predatory fish will swim and hunt for food at various depths, which leads to unique diets in these fish. Oceanographers and geologists in the School of Ocean and Earth Science ...
Sep 01, 2009 |
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Federal study shows mercury in fish widespread
(AP) -- No fish can escape mercury pollution. That's the take-home message from a federal study of mercury contamination released Wednesday that tested fish from nearly 300 streams across the country.
Aug 19, 2009 |
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How Mercury Becomes Toxic In The Environment
(PhysOrg.com) -- Naturally occurring organic matter in water and sediment appears to play a key role in helping microbes convert tiny particles of mercury in the environment into a form that is dangerous to ...
Aug 18, 2009 |
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Surface features on Titan form like Earth's, but with a frigid twist
Saturn's haze-enshrouded moon Titan turns out to have much in common with Earth in the way that weather and geology shape its terrain, according to two pieces of research to be presented at the XXVII General ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 06, 2009 |
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Gov't considers 7 states for mercury site
(AP) -- The federal government is trying to find a location to store the nation's excess mercury deposits, with seven states being considered. But the government is quickly finding out that very few people ...
Jul 24, 2009 |
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Summer is here and the mercury is rising… literally
Hot town, summer in the city. When it comes to air-quality advisories, city residents are no strangers, especially during the dog days of summer. But smog is made up of an array of air pollutants, including ...
Jul 15, 2009 |
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Worried about mercury? It's easy to choose safer fish
We've been told seafood is good for us because it's low in calories and fat, full of protein and packed with Omega-3s, which may protect against coronary heart disease and stroke, and are thought to help neurological development ...
Jun 26, 2009 |
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