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

The county Board of Supervisors unanimously directed its attorneys Tuesday to draft an ordinance creating “ICE-Free Zones” to prevent county facilities from being used as staging areas or processing ...

For 21 years, between 1999 and 2020, millions of people worldwide loaned UC Berkeley scientists their computers to search for ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

Scientists found new evidence (or lack thereof) disproving the conspiracy theory that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is alien ...

Those concerned that 3I/ATLAS' arrival to our solar system meant that some sort of alien invasion was imminent can breathe a ...

Sci-fi movies get the lion's share of the attention, but there were a number of high-quality genre series on the small screen ...

These three sci-fi movies were set in 2026. Were their narratives' events prescient or were they way off base?

Tucked away in the small town of Milton, Delaware sits an architectural anomaly so striking it seems to defy both gravity and conventional design. The Futuro House looks like it teleported straight ...

If you have a fear of being probed, the Gem State probably isn’t for you. Canada Sports Betting has ranked Idaho No. 2 in the ...

Delaware isn’t typically known for outlandish roadside attractions – the state tends to pride itself more on historic sites and natural beauty than oddball architecture. That makes the Futuro all the ...