Mercury, a transition metal belonging to Group 12 of the periodic table, remains a liquid at room temperature due to its unique electronic configuration—and, as it turns out, because of something else that you may already have heard of.
Related Posts
The sticking point: why physicists are still struggling to understand ice’s capacity to adhere and become slippery
Philippe Brunet, Université Paris Cité and Pierre-Brice Bintein, Université Paris Cité Whether in the form of frost or…
How generative AI and physics can help design new antibiotics
Rachael (Ré) A Mansbach, Concordia University and Jyler Menard By 2050, scientists estimate that antibiotic-resistant infections will be…
Fancy a Job Interview With Google? You Should Probably Watch This
Google interviewers were known to ask brain teasers to job applicants, with others believing this was their way…
Melissa Caddick mystery shows we need more research of a rare kind – marine forensics
A runner after five months in the sea as part of a forensics study. Paola A. Magni Paola…