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The fight against Environmental pollution is an unending one, you can't win against an enemy you are not completely aware of.  There are countless of environmental pollutants that have been hiding in the three environmental media(Air, soil, and Water) waiting to caught us unaware, it is a good thing that Biologists and Chemists in collaboration with a computer scientist join forces and came up with a  new programming language that will uncover previously unknown environmental pollutants at a very high speed without the need  to code. The tool makes it easier to search massive chemical datasets, the tool has already identified toxic compounds hidden in plain sight.  It helps identify everything from pollutants in water to chemicals in new medicines, it also helps in showing scientists what molecules are in air, water, or blood samples, and in what amounts. The name of this amazing tool which was developed at Universitu of California Riverside is MASS QUERY...

Mercury can be sourced from both Environmental( and human-driven process( Mining, Fossil fuel).  A specific form of Mercury called Methylmercury is known to be toxic to humans causing a neurological diseases called the Minamata disease, the disease has proven to be a cause of insanity, paralysis and numbness among others. During the 18th and 19th century workers in the hat-making trade were exposed to mercury nitrate, Chronic mercury poisoning led to symptoms such as tremors, irritability, hallucinations, and other neurological issues, therefore the term "Mad Hatter" is coined.  Prolonged exposure to mercury vapors caused severe health effects among hatters, including: Memory loss, Speech problems, and depression.   To eliminate the health impacts of Methylmercury, policies and regulations to limit mercury emissions were implemented across the globe. And, according to research published in ACS ES&T Air, those efforts seems to be working.  The researchers sta...