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Method For Detecting Mercury in Fish and Dental Fillings

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have developed a simple and quick method for detecting mercury in fish and dental samples, two substances at the center of public concern about mercury contamination. The technique involves a fluorescent substance that glows bright green when it comes into contact with oxidized mercury, the researchers report in the current online edition of the “Journal of the American Chemical Society.� The intensity of the glow indicates the amount of mercury present.

Fluorescence Used To Develop Method For Detecting Mercury In Fish

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have developed a simple and quick method for detecting mercury in fish and dental samples, two substances at the center of public concern about mercury contamination. The technique involves a fluorescent substance that glows bright green when it comes into contact with oxidized mercury. The intensity of the glow indicates the amount of mercury present.

NASA Probe To Mercury Confirms It's Hot Stuff!

If you were looking for an inhospitable place to send a spacecraft Mercury would be right on top of your list. For the non-space tourists among us Mercury is the first rock from the Sun. It's a tiny planet, smallest in the solar system with no moons, no atmosphere to speak of and daytime highs in the mid-400°s C (around 800° F). Actually, that number is misleading because permanently shaded areas of the planet can dip to -350° F. And, of course, Mercury is bombarded with the full force of the Sun's radiation around the clock. Bring SPF 1,000,000.

Solucorp Granted Patent For Its IFS Mercury Emission Control Technology

WEST NYACK, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Solucorp Industries Ltd. (OTC: SLUP) has been granted a patent for its Integrated Fixation System (IFS) Mercury Emissions Control technology from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). U.S. Patent No. 7,407,602 for the application and use of the IFS technology expires on March 24, 2026. IFS has been successfully demonstrated at live coal fired energy plants to effectively reduce both ionic and elemental mercury emissions from flue gases and is exclusively marketed by CoaLogix (www.scr-tech.com) under the trade name MetalliFix. All of the IFS technologies contain Solucorp's patented Molecular Bonding System (MBS) heavy metals remediation technology that reacts with and permanently remediates all hazardous heavy metals including mercury.

Spacecraft transmits new data on Mercury

The planet Mercury is pictured on October 6, 2008. NASA's spacecraft MESSENGER captured the high-resolution images as it successfully completed its second flyby of Mercury. (UPI Photo/NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington)

MESSENGER's Second Mercury Flyby: Ancient Geology, Active Atmosphere

MESSENGER took this approximate true-color photo of Mercury using its wide-angle camera as it departed from its October 6, 2008 flyby of Mercury. About half of the illuminated area -- the right (east) side of this image -- had not before been seen by spacecraft. The bright splash just below center is the fresh crater Kuiper. Another fresh crater near the north pole (top right) has produced an enormous system of rays that stretches nearly around the planet, converging toward the south pole. Credit: NASA / JPL / CIW

NASA probe shows Mercury more dynamic than thought

This undated handout photo provided by NASA, taken earlier this month by the Messenger space probe, shows a portion of Mercury. Earth's first nearly full look at Mercury reveals that the tiny lifeless planet took a far greater role in in shaping itself than scientists had thought with volcanoes spewing "mysterious dark blue material." (AP Photo/NASA)

US Spacecraft Messenger Prepares Second Flyby With Mercury

Next Monday the U.S. spacecraft MESSENGER will fly past Mercury a second time in preparation for settling in to orbit around the planet closest to the Sun. Mission controllers with the U.S. space agency NASA are anxiously awaiting the event, which will give them an opportunity to view most of the unseen surface of Mercury. VOA's Jessica Berman reports.

Messenger spacecraft sends shots from Mercury

rcury earlier this week, providing researchers a new view of the planet closest the Sun. Messenger came within just 200 kilometres of Mercury early Monday in the second of three planned flybys for the craft. It is due to settle into orbit around Mercury in 2011, providing what scientists hope will be the most complete picture yet of the solar system’s smallest planet.

Messenger Sends First Full Fly-By Image of Mercury

An anonymous reader writes with this snippet from Gizmodo: "NASA's Messenger (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging spacecraft) has flown by just 125 miles over the surface of Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun and the smallest in the Solar System. This is the first time in history that the whole planet is going to be photographed in its entirety by an Earthling probe, with amazing resolution and ultra-crisp detail." The picture at the top of the linked story is fantastic, too.

Lifeless Mercury has active volcanoes in early history

Mercury has seen an enormous amount of volcanic activity early in its history, according to scientists studying the tiny and lifeless planet.

Mercury's many volcanoes spewed blue material

Earth's first nearly full look at Mercury reveals that the tiny lifeless planet took a far greater role in shaping itself than was thought, with volcanoes spewing "mysterious dark blue material."

Mercury livelier than thought, NASA finds

WASHINGTON — Earth's first nearly full look at Mercury reveals that the tiny lifeless planet took a far greater role in shaping itself than was thought, with volcanoes spewing “mysterious dark blue material.�

Mercury Spacecraft Reveals New Details of Mysterious Planet

U.S. space scientists on Wednesday revealed new information about Mercury, the solar system's smallest and hottest planet. The data were collected by the U.S. space agency's MESSENGER space probe that, for the second time this year, zipped past the heavily cratered planet closest to the Sun. VOA's Jessica Berman reports.

Mercury Spacecraft Reveals New Details of Mysterious Planet

U.S. space scientists on Wednesday revealed new information about Mercury, the solar system's smallest and hottest planet. The data were collected by the U.S. space agency's MESSENGER space probe that, for the second time this year, zipped past the heavily cratered planet closest to the Sun. VOA's Jessica Berman reports.

Mercury Spacecraft Reveals New Details of Mysterious Planet

U.S. space scientists on Wednesday revealed new information about Mercury, the solar system's smallest and hottest planet. The data were collected by the U.S. space agency's MESSENGER space probe that, for the second time this year, zipped past the heavily cratered planet closest to the Sun. VOA's Jessica Berman reports.

Mercury, up close: New photos unveiled

(CNN) -- A U.S. spacecraft beamed hundreds of photos of Mercury back to Earth on Tuesday after a close encounter with the planet closest to the sun.

Mercury Formation Linked To Asteroid Impact

As NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft prepares for its second flyby of Mercury, new analyses of data from the first flyby will be presented at the European Planetary Science Congress in Münster on Tuesday 23rd September.

Mercury's 'Spider' Pantheon Fossae Formation Linked To Asteroid Impact

As NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft prepares for its second flyby of Mercury, new analyses of data from the first flyby will be presented at the European Planetary Science Congress in Münster on Tuesday 23rd September.

Mercury's "spider" Pantheon Fossae formation linked to asteroid impact

As NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft prepares for its second flyby of Mercury, new analyses of data from the first flyby will be presented at the European Planetary Science Congress in Münster on Tuesday 23rd September.

Mercury (Photos Hi-Res) Once Alive With Volcanoes

While it seems like a geologically dead planet today, early in its history tiny Mercury may have been a caldron of volcanic activity, NASA scientists said on Wednesday.

Mercury Was Once Alive With Volcanoes

While it seems like a geologically dead planet today, early in its history tiny Mercury may have been a caldron of volcanic activity, NASA scientists said on Wednesday.

Mercury was once alive with volcanoes

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - While it seems like a geologically dead planet today, early in its history tiny Mercury may have been a caldron of volcanic activity, NASA scientists said on Wednesday.

Mercury was once alive with volcanoes

Washington, Oct 30: While it seems like a geologically dead planet on Wednesday, early in its history tiny Mercury may have been a caldron of volcanic activity, NASA scientists said on Wednesday.

Mercury Photos: Never Before Seen Transmited By Spacecraft

A U.S. spacecraft has, for the second time this year, transmitted new photos and data about previously unseen areas of Mercury.

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