In 1926 the Transcontinental Oil Co. constructed a gasoline filling station on the northeast corner of 18th Street and Boston ...

Many Michiganders are preparing for the swarms of mayflies that occur in early summer. Here's what to know about the insects.

Nichole "Vapor" Ayers shared a fascinating video of the northern lights that unexpectedly formed while she was filming from ...

The lamp’s burst will almost certainly push hot Hg vapor into your listening room. Since mercury is heavier than air, it will try to make its way down to your floor as it dissipates. But dissipate, it ...

Peter Cooper Hewitt created a blue-green light by passing an electric current through mercury vapor. The lights had few suitable uses because of the color but were one of the precursors to ...

During the final step of treatment, wastewater is bathed in a blast of UV light before returning to our waterways. It’s effective, but there’s a catch — the mercury vapor lamps that currently ...

Mercury exists in the atmosphere chiefly as elemental mercury vapor. Mercury from industry ... Mercury is also found in fluorescent light bulbs and thermometers. If you accidentally break any ...

The Hartford Electric Light Co. has been using a mercury-vapor turbine to run its generators since 1923. That turbine was shut down while last week a second was prepared for operation. William Le ...

But to an overhead drone the lights reflect green hues because they are some variation of fluorescent or mercury vapor lights. Cameras record light, and the many different kinds of artificial ...