Attorney General Pam Bondi’s decision to rescind rules protecting journalists are being used as a cudgel to attack the First Amendment.

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THE INCREDIBLE VANISHING BILLIONAIRE: California Gov. Gavin Newsom didn’t expect to spend the last year of his term in an all ...

Swimming holes are nature’s version of a reward system. They are rarely easy to reach, often hidden, and never accidental.

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

A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 radio signals of ...

The afternoon I saw Tracy Letts‘ excellent, itchy Bug on Broadway — an earlier scheduled performance had been canceled — the ...

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By studying large language models as if they were living things instead of computer programs, scientists are discovering some ...

Europa has long been the darling of the search for life beyond Earth. The reason is simple: beneath its cracked, icy shell ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole. Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led ...