What's shiny, liquid, conducts electricity and is also the surname of a legendary rock star? You guessed it, mercury. This ...

In this video, I'll be talking about the very interesting element Mercury. I try to cover as much as I can, including its ...

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Young Earth was a blue planet covered in oceans, much like today. But the atmosphere was a lethal cocktail of gases, with no ...

Liquid crystals are substances that flow like a liquid but maintain some of the ordered structure of crystals. Liquid-crystal molecules tend to be elongated and to orient in specific directions. A ...

Jon Wilner has been covering college sports for decades and is an AP top-25 football and basketball voter as well as a Heisman Trophy voter. He was named Beat Writer of the Year in 2013 by the ...

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