Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, but far from being a dull cinder of a world, it has instead turned out to be a real eye opener for geologists. Among the revelations by NASA's MESSENGER probe ...

We know that red mercury makes the manufacturing of nuclear bombs much, much easier. We don’t exactly know how it manages to do this, but that’s only because red mercury, as far as we know, doesn’t ...

Mythical red mercury, the supposed fuel for mini-nukes, is still alive and gearing up for a comeback. For the past two decades, people have reportedly peddled the fictional material to would-be bomb ...

It sounds like something from the pages of a Tom Clancy novel: a mystery substance with terrifying properties emerges from the wreckage of the Soviet Union. A body turns up in pieces in South Africa.

Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, but far from being a dull cinder of a world, it has instead turned out to be a real eye opener for geologists. Among the revelations by NASA’s MESSENGER probe ...