You definitely shouldn't mess around with mercury, but if you want a safe, similar, tactile experience, a metal called Gallium is widely available online. It's melting point is about 85 degrees, so ...

Mercury is a mesmerizing element. Liquid at room temperature, yet dense enough that coins will float atop its surface, it has wowed a great many students in high school science classes over the ...

So, after dodging it for nearly three years (and precisely 14 days post-omicron booster), the little SOB finally got me. Pretty crappy timing if you ask me. Rather than bitch and moan about how lousy ...

While M&Ms melt in your mouth but not in your hands, the mysterious element, gallium, does both. It has some rather unique and interesting properties. If you find you're playing Final Jeopardy, and ...

Mendeleev had predicted and described gallium (Ga) as ekaaluminum. In 1875, Lecoq de Boisbaudran identified gallium spectroscopically, and in the same year, extracted the free metal through ...