Mercury is a metal, yet it has some weird physical properties, including being a liquid at room temperature.

Mercury, also called quicksilver, is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Hg and atomic number 80. A heavy, silvery, transition metal, mercury is one of five elements that are ...

Mercury freezes at roughly minus 38.8 degrees Celsius, a temperature so far below everyday conditions that the silvery ...

Mercury is the most beautiful element in the periodic table. And the most reviled. UCL chemist and broadcaster, Professor Andrea Sella, explores the mysterious world of mercury and explains why in his ...

NEW YORK — They exist for only seconds at most in real life, but they’ve gained immortality in chemistry: Two new elements have been added to the periodic table. The elements were recognized by an ...

I highly recommend Wonderful Life with the Elements as a companion to the science classroom. Our world, everything we know, can be distilled into 188 elements. The very thought is fascinating in its ...