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Science & Tech News tagged with mercury

Hidden Territory On Mercury Revealed
Science & Tech  (tags: Mercury, research, study, interesting )

Ingrid
- 20 days ago - spacedaily.com
The MESSENGER spacecraft's third flyby of the planet Mercury has given scientists, for the first time, an almost complete view of the planet's surface and revealed some dramatic changes in Mercury's comet-like tail.
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Mercury Found in All Fish Caught in U.S.-Tested Streams
Science & Tech  (tags: u.s., geological, survey, mercury, fish, freshwater, streams, discovery, investigation, science, research, health, habitat, ecosystems, nature, environment, pollution, health, risks, warning, disease, illness, coal, mining, safety, food )

Tom
- 88 days ago - usatoday.com
The U.S. Geological Survey's research marks its most comprehensive examination of mercury contamination in stream fish. The study found that 27% of the fish had mercury levels high enough to exceed what the Environmental Protection Agency considers safe.
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Vitamin D Not Flu Shots   video
Science & Tech  (tags: Vitamen D, sunlight, winter, sunshine, research, science, health, Mercola, aluminum, formaldehyde, mercury, U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prev, i.u. vitamen D, autism )

Gregory
- 300 days ago - youtube.com
A Group Health study found that flu shots do not protect elderly people against developing pneumonia -- the primary cause of death resulting as a complication of the flu.There is some evidence that flu shots cause Alzheimers disease, containing mercury...
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Astronomy Picture of the Day : 2008 November 03: A Spectacular Rayed Crater on Mercury
Science & Tech  (tags: Mercury, craters, NASA, spacecraft, APL, Astronomy )

Blue
- 386 days ago - antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov
Pictured, a particularly spectacular rayed crater spanning approximately 80 kilometers was imaged by MESSENGER during last month's flyby from about 20,000 kilometers up. The rays prevalence is a mystery because space weathering effects such as dust ...
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Mercury as Never Seen Before
Science & Tech  (tags: nasa, spacecraft, mercury, amazing )

Ingrid
- 412 days ago - science.nasa.gov
NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft flew past Mercury and photographed a broad swath of never-before-seen terrain. The first of more than 1,200 high-resolution images are arriving back at Earth now.
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Spacecraft Reveals Stunning New Views of Mercury
Science & Tech  (tags: space, Mercury, photos )

Isabel
- 413 days ago - livescience.com
A NASA probe has begun beaming back stunning new images from its successful second flyby of Mercury, the planet closest to the sun.
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Messenger Is Alive and Shooting (Check the Best Photos!)
Science & Tech  (tags: photos, space, mercury, science, discovery )

Nelson
- 551 days ago - amazus.org
Nasa sent Messenger to investigate mercury which is the smallest and densest planet in our solar system. Beside having the oldest surface and being the closest to the sun, Mercury also has the largest daily temperature variations in his surface.
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Simulation Reveals Possible Cause of Mercury's Distinctive Features
Science & Tech  (tags: research, science, scientists, technology, investigation, environment, space, concept, design, computers, convection, cooling, mantle, Mercury, planet )

J.
- 618 days ago - sciencedaily.com
A Prof of geosciences at Virginia Tech,has created numerical simulations of the three-dimensional nature of convection within Mercury's silicate mantle using High-Performance Earth Simulation System,high-speed,high-capacity 768-core Del computing cluster.
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Quantum Logic Clock Rivals Mercury Ion as World's Most Accurate Clock
Science & Tech  (tags: science, scientists, NIST, technology, computers, concept, aluminium, atomic, beryllium, clock, mercury, optical, quantum, time, news )

J.
- 628 days ago - nist.gov
An atomic clock that uses an aluminum atom to apply the logic of computers to the peculiarities of the quantum world now rivals the world's most accurate clock,based on a single mercury atom.Both 10 times more accurate than the current U.S. time standard.
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Mercury Found to Have Super Long, Glowing Tail
Science & Tech  (tags: mercury, science, interesting )

Ingrid
- 635 days ago - dsc.discovery.com
The first rock from the sun has a glowing dragon tail of sodium atoms that is more than seven times longer than ever suspected.
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Collaboration Helps Make JILA Strontium Atomic Clock 'Best in Class'
Science & Tech  (tags: science, technology, performance, atom, atomic, caesium, calcium, clock, laser, lattice, mercury, optical, strontium )

J.
- 648 days ago - nist.gov
BOULDER, Colo.-- The new 'Crystal of Light' atomic clock, based on thousands of strontium atoms trapped in grids of laser light, surpasses the accuracy of the current U.S. time standard based on a 'fountain' of caesium atoms.
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NASA MESSENGER's Mercury Flyby Science Data Now Safely on Earth
Science & Tech  (tags: nasa, planets, mercury, technology, news )

Burton
- 677 days ago - spaceref.com
A day after its successful flyby of Mercury, the MESSENGER spacecraft turned toward Earth on Tuesday and began downloading the 500 megabytes of data that had been stored on the solid-state recorder during the encounter
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Tidbinbilla 'in the Right Place' to Receive Mercury Pics - Australia
Science & Tech  (tags: australia, tidbinbilla, canberra, mercury, nasa, planet, space )

Chrissy
- 677 days ago - abc.net.au
Tidbinbilla space tracking station south of Canberra was in the 'right place at the right time' to receive the first pictures of the planet Mercury from NASA's Messenger spacecraft on Wednesday. Messenger collected data from 200 kilometres above the far
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Planet Mercury's Previously Unseen Side
Science & Tech  (tags: news, science, space, Mercury, NASA, research, technology, discovery, future )

J.
- 678 days ago - sciencedaily.com
NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft captured this image during its closest approach to Mercury. The image reveals a variety of intriguing surface features, including craters as small as 300 yards across.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day - 2008 January 16
Science & Tech  (tags: Messenger Spacecraft, Mercury, astronomy )

Blue
- 679 days ago - antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov
MESSENGER Approaches Mercury -- Credit: MESSENGER Teams, JHU APL, NASA -- Explanation: Two days ago, the MESSENGER spacecraft became only the second in human history to swoop past Mercury
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