As the year draws to a close, we take a look at some of the biggest science stories of the year, and why they matter.

Dean Martin destroyed his expensive Stutz vintage car in a McDonald's drive-thru to get a burger for Bing Crosby's grandson ...

Sound Off is an opinion forum for Mercury readers to offer brief comments on today’s news. Submissions must be 75 words or ...

I recently came across an article from the Barna group entitled: “How Millennials and Gen Z are Driving a Bible Reading ...

In all its artistic iterations across millennia, the nativity remains inherently political in its depiction of God choosing ...

Not to White Castle specifically, but to a sort of ‘white castle’: where you are so integrated and assimilated that you are ...

Billionaire Larry Ellison comes to his son’s rescue, agreeing to personally guarantee over $40 billion to finance Paramount’s bid for Warner Bros. Search for missing swimmer suspended; witness saw ...

Looking to the fall festivals, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s newly titled Digger, starring Tom Cruise, looks possible for ...

People used enormous wooden spoons to baste Butter Baby in butter along with faceless yellow-suited attendants as atmospheric music played in the dimly-lit space. The three-day Melrose pop-up ran from ...

If aliens are out there, why haven’t we heard from them? That’s the question at the center of Pop Mech’s new story, “Aliens Probably Exist—But They’re Staying Silent For a Reason, NASA Scientist ...

Readers Edition. This is the (nearly) annual tradition of you, RPS readers, telling us where we went wrong in our annual ...

After a year that has whiplashed between genius and landfill, here are the 25 films from across the world that justified the ...