Joel D. Blum considers the two faces of mercury. It has many unique and useful properties in chemistry — yet it comes with a dark and dangerous side. Mercury was central to the study of alchemy ...

Mercury is a toxic element with no known biological function. Laboratory studies demonstrate that mercury can be beneficial to microbial growth by acting as an electron acceptor during photosynthesis.

Robyn White is a Newsweek Nature Reporter based in ... found that levels of the chemical element haven't changed in the fish since 1971. Mercury, or methylmercury, is a toxic chemical found ...

The findings were published this week in the journal Nature Communication ... is dangerous and it’s getting worse Mercury is a natural but toxic element that is released into the Earth ...

Levels of mercury persist in tuna, decades after pollution controls were introduced to limit emissions, scientists say. The poisonous element is released by mining and burning coal and ends up in ...

These metallic elements are not usually thought of as gases. But they find their way into Mercury’s skies by dint of solar particles and meteorites striking the planet’s surface. Solar winds ...

Mercury is a naturally occurring element found in air, water and soil. But it's also a dangerous toxic nerve poison. People tend to associate mercury with its silvery liquid form — as found in ...