Tobacco hornworm caterpillars have no organs that resemble ears. Yet, scientists were able to figure out how they hear—and it ...

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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 ...

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he's directing the Pentagon and other government agencies to release files related ...

President Trump says he’ll release government records on UFOs and extraterrestrial life. The renewed focus comes as the hit documentary “Age of Disclosure” fuels debate over what officials may know.

Words for a better world Sun Ra has a way with words – a strange celestial way. Like the rest of us, he uses them to communicate. But what he communicates ...

This is the full audio of a real 911 call made in 1990 from Washington State. The caller calmly but urgently tells police, ...

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The morning after a nighttime snowfall evokes feelings of newness and wonder. If the air is calm and the trees still retain their coat of fluffy white, I immediately bundle ...

After two decades of quiet data processing on millions of crowd-sourced home computers, the SETI@home project has narrowed down billions of space whispers to 100 signals. Could one of these point to ...