Ridley Scott's Alien and James Cameron's Aliens are two of the greatest sci-fi movies ever made. When it was announced that ...

AI is officially terrifying — so we used it to prank people on camera and see who would actually believe it. We rented a liquor store and hid cameras everywhere, then showed customers AI-generated ...

Unlikeable female characters in movies and series are redefining storytelling. Here’s why flawed female protagonists dominate.

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

Biology students at St. Charles Community College are revolutionizing learning through virtual reality, as they diagnose and cure alien species.

This month offers St. Patrick’s Day and the Oscars, vampires and Mapplethorpe, as well as free ice skating and a final bow from Jonathan Groff.

A Minnesota middle school lesson plan for eighth-graders asks students to consider whether Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have gone “too far,” claiming that the agency is arresting legal ...

Since television’s earliest days, storytellers have turned to time travel TV as one of the medium’s most flexible dramatic devices—a way to revisit history, imagine the future and test the ...

A "No More Kings" demonstration is planned to protest what organizers call a constitutional crisis. Readers expressed divided ...

Montesano is a town roughly a 45-minute drive west of me, quite close to Washington’s Pacific coast. It’s the county seat of ...