What follows is one of the many articles in the Mercury’s 2026 Fall Arts Issue. Find a print copy here, subscribe to get a copy mailed to you here, and if you’re feeling generous and want to keep ...

How water gets locked into rock The process begins miles before the seafloor sinks into the trench. As the Pacific Plate ...

The tallest mountain on Earth would vanish beneath the sea if it were dropped into the deepest point of the ocean. Mount ...

Users accused the agency, which last year used a Pokémon parody video to celebrate an uptick in ICE arrests, of disparaging Haiti and its citizens in a "gross" attempt to convince more people to leave ...

In her promise to take the matter to the Supreme Court, Iowa AG Brenna Bird, while seeing no sin in the DOJ white glove sign ...

A large part of San Francisco’s summer was a literal car crash. On the positive side, they have so far avoided their usual list of crushing injuries ...

Jason Statham dominates streaming with over-the-top action and thrills in The Meg and Meg 2: The Trench.

The federal official who has publicly defended the accelerated timeline for seabed mining leases off the Marianas left his ...

Del. James Moylan wanted a guarantee written into a sweeping mining bill moving through Congress last week: Seabed mining off ...

Hong Kong, September 8 (ANI): China attempted to throw its weight around at the 55th iteration of the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting, held in Palau from 31 August to 3 September 2026. Beijing ...

They are Nature’s masterpieces: rare and finite. Natural diamonds are shaped deep within Earth’s mantle, over millions of ...

Spanning history, religion, culture, science and philosophy, In Our Time celebrates the pursuit of knowledge and the enduring ...