Medicine & TechnologyWhile most metals are solid and melt at certain temperatures, mercury is a heavy silvery metal which is liquid at room temperature. Read the article to know more about this strange behavior.
One isotope of xenon has a half-life of about 18 sextillion years, making it the longest half-life ever directly measured in a radioactive substance. Read the article to learn more.
Despite being a relatively new conservation approach, de-extinction and its associated sequencing and gene-editing technologies can potentially influence biodiversity and ecosystem restoration and impact how species adapt to these effects, greatly reducing extinctions.
The water in the Dead Sea has an extremely salty nature due to its geographical features that allow ions to accumulate without being diluted. Read the article to learn more.
Experts have recently created a four-atom molecule with an ultralong chemical bond, the coldest of its kind ever made. Check this article to learn more.
Tantalum-180m, a rare nuclear isomer, has a remarkably long lifetime, but its decay has never been observed. Read more about this isotope in this article.
The FDA, responding to recent toxicology studies, proposed banning BVO, a citrus soda ingredient, across the US due to safety concerns. Continue reading for more details.