Surprising Discovery: Planet Mercury Has a Liquid Core

What does kitchen physics have to do with astronomical measurements? Well...everything. Pop quiz: You have two eggs on the kitchen table. How do you know which one is boiled and which one is raw? Easy: you spin them and the raw egg will spin slower that the hard-boiled one.A team ... [ read more >> ]

Computer simulation of Mercury's liquid core

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Image credits: Nicolle Ragger Fuller / National Science Foundation

Computer simulation of Mercury's liquid core