NASA will return to Mercury for the first time in almost 33 years on January 14, 2008, when the MESSENGER spacecraft makes its first flyby of the Sun’s closest neighbor, capturing images of large portions of the planet never before seen.

What lies on the uncharted side of mysterious Mercury, the smallest planet in the solar system? Brown University students, led by planetary geologist James Head, will study never-before-seen images of Mercury when a NASA spacecraft makes the first visit to Mercury in nearly 33 years.

NASA will point a power-packed $8.7 million University of Colorado at Boulder space instrument at some of the last unexplored terrain in the inner solar system when the MESSENGER spacecraft whips within 125 miles of Mercury's surface Jan. 14 at a mind-boggling 141,000 miles per hour.

A team of researchers, led by biologists at Dartmouth, has found potentially dangerous levels of mercury and arsenic in Lake Baiyangdian, the largest lake in the North China Plain and a source of both food and drinking water for the people who live around it.

Ford Motor Company today became the first US automaker to announce the availability of factory-installed HD Radio technology as a standard or optional feature on Ford, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles beginning in calendar year 2009.

Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable are recognized safety leaders for many reasons. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety awarded Taurus and Sable its "Top Safety Pick" designation for large family cars. And the two vehicles earned the maximum five-star rating in all crash test categories from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Mercury is a potent neurotoxin and a worrisome environmental contaminant, but the severity of its threat appears to depend on what else is in the water.

3ple-Media today announces that their ground breaking MercuryTM Mobile Multimedia solution has been selected as one of two ‘best of breed’ finalists competing for a chance to win the GSM Asia Mobile Innovation Award for the ‘Most Innovative Carrier Infrastructure or Platform’. 3ple-Media was selected as a finalist from a shortlist of 50 ‘Top Innovators’ identified by the GSM Association (GSMA).

Reducing atmospheric mercury emissions should quickly reduce mercury levels in lake fish, according to a three-year study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. The study showed that an increase in mercury loading at rates relevant to atmospheric deposition resulted in a significant increase in methylmercury production and accumulation in fish in only three years.

A joint Canadian-American research team have, for the first time, demonstrated that mercury concentrations in fish respond directly to changes in atmospheric deposition of the chemical.

Known to the alchemists and long used as a detonator to set off dynamite—mercury fulminate has a checkered past. Now, more than 300 years after the discovery of this explosive compound, German researchers have been able to characterize its crystal structure and thus finally reveal the molecular structure of mercury fulminate.

Ford, Lincoln and Mercury brands posted dramatic improvement in the latest University of Michigan American Customer Satisfaction Index.