Tag: mercury

Scientists, using data from NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft, believe that Mercury’s unique features, like its dark surface and dense core, are linked to its carbon-rich past. Mercury, the smallest planet in our solar system, may be hiding a surprising secret: a 10-mile-thick diamond layer beneath its surface. Also read: UN calls for halting escalation in Middle […]

MAKHACHKALA: The chess world was stunned when a Russian chess champion, Amina Abakarova, was caught trying to poison her childhood rival. She allegedly covered her opponent’s chess pieces with mercury, a highly toxic substance, before a tournament in Makhachkala, southern Russia. Amina Abakarova, 43, is now facing possible imprisonment after security cameras captured her tampering […]