Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the universe in a completely different way than we do. Physicist Daniel Whiteson exp ...

Green Bank Telescope rules out alien signals in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS after rigorous scientific deep search.

Rebecca English told Prince Harry's lawyer that allegations relating to Chelsy Davy were "absolutely fanciful." ...

Sound Off is an opinion forum for Mercury readers to offer brief comments on today’s news. Submissions must be 75 words or fewer and are subject to editing for grammar and clarity. Publication is at ...

Many muses have inspired the greatest songs by bands, but these artists made a handful of their songs purely out of spite.

Oisín Walsh, half of Irish duo Spearside, once toyed with the idea of becoming a priest. It was a calling he shared with many ...

Did you know? Sound from another planet, the wind on Mars, has been recorded and made audible with the help of headphones and ...

Lawsuits are one of the only ways to hold the line against a regime bent on frog-marching our country back to the late nineteenth century—the actual Gilded Age, before women’s suffrage and the civil ...

The genre-defining EP marked the first collaboration between Charli XCX and the late SOPHIE, cementing their idiosyncratic, futuristic vision of what pop could be.

Astronomers used the VLA and MeerKAT radio telescopes to search the Hycean exoplanet K2-18b for alien technosignatures, analyzing millions of signals but finding no confirmed artificial radio transmis ...

The Harvard professor says he’s noticed that people around him are beginning to lose their cognitive abilities as a result of excessive use of AI platforms such as ChatGPT.