In early May, the neurotoxic effects of the heavy metal mercury made news when outlets reported that 2024 U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in 2012 that he experienced cognitive ...

In my research on the history of psychiatry and psychopharmacology, I can’t get away from mercury. Edgar Allan Poe, three months before he died in a delirious state, had been treated with ...

Mercury is the only metal that’s liquid at room temperature. Explore its bizarre properties, its deadly past, and its surprising uses today. Could Trump destroy the Epstein files? Suspect in murder of ...