If you’ve ever driven an electric car or have been in close proximity to one in a parking lot, you’ve probably heard a ...

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 ...

If you spend enough time around certain dog breeds, you realize they have entirely distinct languages. Mostly consisting of ...

Science is getting eerily close to what used to belong only in sci-fi movies. Imagine a sound that can travel through the air and reach only one specific person - no speakers, no headphones, no one ...

Which sleep sound are the best for falling asleep? How about staying asleep? And is the future of sleep simply a story without an ending?

We like to think that the universe follows a strict set of logical rules, but every now and then, we stumble upon facts that ...

The mysterious Cornish electronic music pioneer has gained an extraordinary second life in the TikTok era. Writers and musicians explain why his glitchy slipperiness is so in tune with life today ...

Steven Bartlett introduced the segment as an experiment to see whether artificial intelligence could synthesise decades of ...

The Predator franchise boasts some terrifyingly skilled and downright memorable characters. Let's try to find the 10 ...

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

A former analyst for the Bank of England wrote to the national bank's current management warning them of a possible financial ...

"Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant" is a radically honest discussion of bodily autonomy. Read our review out of its Sundance 2026 ...