Ten years after an international treaty to ban mercury, the toxic metal continues to poison. The reason might have to do with your wedding ring.
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A Divided World United to Launch the James Webb Space Telescope
“I’ve always seen space as an area where we cooperate, through all the trying times,” said a professor who oversaw mission control for the global effort to launch a $10 billion telescope into space.
Webb Telescope Approaches Launch, With an Eye Toward Cosmic Origins
The biggest space telescope in history aims to answer astronomy’s oldest question: How did we get from the Big Bang to here?