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Is mercury in vaccines safe?
Why are preservatives, including mercury compounds like thiomersal, added to vaccines? What is ... Chris and Kieno Kammies for all the answers... And why are mercury compounds added to vaccines at all... Is mercury in vaccines safe? ...
Mission To Mercury
... to see the BepiColombo spacecraft - Europe’s mission to Mercury. As the LISA Pathfinder mission comes to a successful ... Tate Liverpool... Find out all about Europe's mission to Mercury! Mission To Mercury ...
Mercury fulminate, Hg(CNO)2: Chemistry in its element
... Freemantle examines the explosive history and chemistry of mercury fulminate Michael Freemantle examines the explosive history and chemistry of mercury fulminate Mercury fulminate, Hg(CNO)2: Chemistry in its element ...
Eyes on the Sky for Mercury
On 9 May, Mercury will be seen as a black dot silhouetted against the ... life, as Graihagh Jackson finds out... On 9 May, Mercury will be seen as a black dot silhouetted against the Sun... Eyes on the Sky for Mercury ...
Mercury: Chemistry in its element
Mercury podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Mercury podcast from Chemistry World - the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Mercury: Chemistry in its element ...
The harmony of the planets
... thing we need to do then is get the fast moving planet Mercury and Mercury goes whizzing around at a high pitch and so, for Mercury, we're going to have all the primary school children ...
Is it possible to detect a transit of Earth across the Sun from Mars?
... to get across the surface of the sun. I think a transit of Mercury across the surface of the sun has been seen by one of ... the Mars Rovers. I'm not completely sure on that, but yes, Mercury does transit the sun quite often, but Venus and ...
Einsteinium: secrets of 99th element unlocked
... down the list than something like carbon, or gold, or mercury. While carbon is number 6, gold is number 79, and mercury is number 80, einsteinium is the 99th ...
A History of Superconductivity
... of metals at very low temperatures. He cooled down Mercury down to about 4.2K (or -269°C) and discovered that ... to zero. He called this effect superconductivity as the mercury showed perfect conductivity. He later discovered that ...
Does Puerto Rico have the largest radio telescope in the world?
... of the radio waves to do this. If you fire a radio beam at Mercury, for example, you can actually see that light that's ... the planet is spinning. In that way you can see how fast Mercury is spinning. Down here in Puerto Rico we're supposed ...
Celebrating 100 years of Eddington's eclipse
... it didn't quite account for, and that was the way that Mercury's orbit moved round the sun. But Einstein was the ... on Earth - but could also justify what was happening to Mercury, due to an extra curvature of space-time in the ...
Whale lifetime recorded in earwax
... contaminants, like DDT and its breakdown products, and mercury. These substances are deposited in the layers of wax ... and reveals periods when the animal was stressed, abrupt mercury peaks presumably coinciding with the whale feeding on ...
Technique turns carbon dioxide back into coal
... all purposes, the liquid metal catalyst looks a lot like mercury but it's not mercury. It's based on gallium. Gallium is another metallic ...
Why Tired Toddlers Rub Their Eyes
... pop? How does a cordless toothbrush charge? Is there much mercury in compact fluorescent bulbs? Why do tired toddlers ... pop? How does a cordless toothbrush charge? Is there much mercury in compact fluorescent bulbs? Why Tired Toddlers Rub ...
How Progesterone Stimulates Sperm
... celebrate MESSENGER going successfully into orbit around Mercury, and explore the reasons why birds fly into obvious ... celebrate MESSENGER going successfully into orbit around Mercury, and explore the reasons why birds fly into obvious ...
Chemistry at the Synchrotron
... how Diamond has been used to unearth a new source of mercury poisoning... plus all the latest news and event from ... how Diamond has been used to unearth a new source of mercury poisoning... plus all the latest news and event from ...
Going Nuclear
... of the debate. Plus, what the Messenger probe has found on Mercury, a blood test to predict an imminent heart attack, ... of the debate. Plus, what the Messenger probe has found on Mercury, a blood test to predict an imminent heart attack, ...
EarthCARE, Starliner and NASA’s George Abbey
... Robin Hogan, the status of the BepiColombo mission to Mercury which will arrive at its destination next year and an ... to the Brits of Apollo... And the BepiColombo mission to Mercury, which reaches its destination next year... ...
Remarkable Women: A hidden history
... women for this podcast: Hidden Figure Christine Darden and Mercury 13 legend and astronaut wannabe, Wally Funk. ... two remarkable women: Hidden Figure Christine Darden and Mercury 13 legend, Wally Funk. Remarkable Women: A hidden ...
Blood Tests to Predict Heart Attacks
... predict an imminent heart attack, investigate what the Mercury Messenger probe has revealed about the planets ... hibernate... Blood tests predict imminent heart attack, Mercury Messenger probe, and how scientists are seeing around ...
BepiColombo lobster eyes and Apollo legends
After BepiColombo’s recent flyby of Mercury, Space Boffins Richard Hollingham and Sue Nelson hear ... of Snoopy references! How BepiColombo looked down on Mercury as it flew by recently... BepiColombo lobster eyes ...
Tweeting the Mood of the World
... heart attack, the new field of 'designer plastics' and how Mercury is providing a window into our early Solar system. ... heart attack, the new field of 'designer plastics' and how Mercury is providing a window into our early Solar system. ...
All Systems Go: NASA's new giant rocket
... power of the Sun. Sue reports on Europe's new mission to Mercury, they celebrate the 50th anniversary of the missions ... Launch System is getting along and Europe's new mission to Mercury.... All Systems Go: NASA's new giant rocket ...
Ancient Poet Astronomically Accurate
... flight of the god Hermes, who represents the planet Mercury. Mercury appears low in the sky, and reverses it's course, ...