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

The Odisha Staff Selection Commission (OSSC) has released 124 vacancies for Amin, Junior Fisheries Technical Assistant, and Junior Forensic Attendant posts through OSSC CHSL recruitment. Candidates ...

Despite more than a decade of study, single-wall carbon nanotubes still have the ability to surprise. One recent study finds that in ultraclean nanotubes an unexpectedly strong spin–orbit coupling ...

A shell expert from the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum compiled a list of rare shells found on Florida beaches. The popular and rare Junonia shell was intentionally left off the list to ...

Like all noble gases, xenon is colourless, odourless and inflammable — but it is also more reactive, and much rarer, than its lighter relatives. Ivan Dmochowski ponders how xenon, though initially ...

Contributed by M. Brian Maple; received October 4, 2022; accepted January 12, 2023; reviewed by Gang Cao and Russell J. Hemley ...