Fifty years ago, many scientists were looking up ... But in Antarctica, John Mercer was looking down — and he was concerned about what he saw. The paper was an intriguing synthesis of the ...

As described by The New York Times, "the new finding appears to be the fulfillment of a prediction made in 1978 by an eminent glaciologist, John H. Mercer ... in recent years scientists have ...

The tower was built to celebrate the work of scientist John Mercer who invented the "Mercerised" cotton cloth. Hyndburn Council declined to comment. The Local Democracy Reporting Service said the ...