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 Comeback.” I was happy to read that weekly Bible reading among U.S. adults has ...

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 ...

The Christmas celebration at Disneyland is coming to a close in a few days, meaning that the Disneyland Christmas foods and ...

Hungry baby hippo eagerly devours its meal. The madness of George Will: Last lonely never-Trumper forges on 3 police officers shot 'without warning' while responding to domestic call My husband left ...

The Critics Choice Awards provided a subtle glimpse at what films and television shows will be favored ahead of the more ...

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 ...

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