He has a beard, a splitting maul, and a house in Michigan. Is that enough to convince America that he’s a man of the people?

Sci-fi has the great power of making science feel cool. Maybe it straddles the line of nerdy a little too often, but ultimately you can’t convince me that the average person wouldn’t enjoy, even a ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Black List and WIF have announced the six participants for the 2026 Episodic Lab.

Exploring divine authority, political power, sectarian conflict, and moral leadership in a globalized, technologically advancing world.

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

Missouri isn’t exactly known for looking like the surface of an alien planet, but apparently nobody told Meramec Caverns in Sullivan about that. This underground wonderland looks like something a ...

Celeste Kidd's research challenges long-standing ideas from Jean Piaget about children's problem-solving abilities. Her ...

In Icelandic culture, it is common for people to choose 10 or more occupations in a lifetime. This is not due to layoffs or firings, but a matter of personal choice. Icelanders believe in ...

Whether this February is an oddity of the statistics, a climatogynomer, or something that defies the usual classification ...

Institutions need to stop treating transparency as a burden imposed by automation and start treating it as a debt owed from ...