Today, many Maya sites are polluted with toxic levels of mercury. The contamination likely originated from cinnabar paints and art.
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No planet enters retrograde more frequently than Mercury, which does so 3-4 times each year. Here’s the scientific explanation for why.
They're the most common type of exoplanet known today, and many astronomers have called them "super-habitable." None of that is true.
Leading a scientific revolution is easy: you just have to succeed where the current theory fails while equaling its successes. Good luck!
Einstein's "happiest thought" led to General Relativity's formulation. Would a different profound insight have led us forever astray?
For now, our Solar System's eight planets are all safe, and relatively stable. Billions of years from now, everything will be different.
Due to a crust of carbon, the absence of oxygen, and constant bombardment from meteorites, the planet Mercury may be littered with diamonds.
Mercury, Venus, and Mars are all uni-plate planets, and may always have been. Here's what's known about why Earth, uniquely, has plate tectonics.
Even at its faintest, Venus always outshines every other star and planet that's visible from Earth, and then some!
Despite being the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury "only" reaches 800 °F at its hottest. Venus is always hotter, even at night.
Mars, the red planet, was a world we knew almost nothing about until our first spacecraft visited it. In just ~50 years, how far we've come!
Until the Apollo missions, we had no idea how the moon got here, just a series of educated guesses. They rewrote the story of the moon’s origins.
Out of the four rocky planets in our Solar System, only Earth presently has plate tectonics. But billions of years ago, Venus had them, too.
Do you think you know the Solar System? Here's a fact about each planet that might surprise you when you see it!
In our Solar System, even the two brightest planets frequently align in our skies. But only rarely is it spectacularly visible from Earth.
Even the most brilliant mind in history couldn't have achieved all he did without significant help from the minds of others.
Analog could serve as "always-on" computing, while digital is turned on only when necessary.
Based on the atoms that they're made out of, the innermost planet should always be the densest. Here's why Earth beats Mercury, hands down.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge" is often taken to mean that your conceptions outweigh what's real. That's not what he said.
As we look to larger cosmic scales, we get a broader view of the expansive cosmic forest, eventually revealing the grandest views of all.
Although many of Einstein's papers revolutionized physics, there's one Einsteinian advance, generally, that towers over all the rest.
It's not about fairness. It's about using every possible advantage.
The boiling new world, which zips around its star at ultraclose range, is among the lightest exoplanets found to date.
Many impact craters on Earth have been erased thanks to wind, water, and plate tectonics. But scientists have clever ways to find them.
The TRAPPIST-1 system is a treasure trove of possibilities and questions. Observations by JWST have just begun.
Using peach and eggplant emojis as shorthand for sex may seem like a new thing, but Renaissance artists were experts at using produce to imply intercourse.