A team of scientists has a new explanation for the planet Mercury’s dark, barely reflective surface. In a paper published in Nature Geoscience, the researchers suggest that a steady dusting of carbon ...

For decades, scientists believed lithium might be hiding in Mercury’s ultra-thin atmosphere, or exosphere, but every attempt to find it came up empty. Now, in a groundbreaking study, researchers have ...

In a recent study published in the journal Biogeosciences, scientists have confirmed that mercury pollution from artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is contaminating food crops not through ...