Imagine a heavy book resting on a table. If you try to gently push the book across the table with the tip of your finger, it ...

The Mercury covers culture & art because we think all its various forms are—quite plainly—how people understand one another. Conversations about food, music, performance, and “weird” installation art ...

In the coming weeks, a new film based on the stories of George RR Martin will be in cinemas. Directed by Paul WS Anderson, ...

Imagine a heavy book resting on a table. If you try to gently push the book across the table with the tip of your finger, it may first appear to ...

The Italian city has been shaken by its strongest earthquake in 40 years, and is part of a growing pattern of seismic unrest across Southern Europe. Environmental scientist Deborah R. Coen looks at ...

The 'Say Anything' actress dishes on her career and everyone she met along the way in her new memoir 'Say Everything' ...

Six months later, she’d get a part in ‘Seven’ and fly to Reno to meet Brad Pitt — and we all know how that turned out.” ...

In 2021, a team led by Dr Gary Kinsland of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette found evidence that the impact and resulting tsunami left "megaripples" of sediment 16 meters (53 feet) high and 600 ...

Ullman has whistled all over D.C., including whistling “Yankee Doodle Dandy” outside while on top of the Washington Monument ...

Actress Ione Skye has spoken about her brother Donovan Leitch's former relationship with Gwyneth Paltrow. In her book Say Everything, she refers to an incident in the 1990s when she felt that Paltrow ...

The 28-year-old Australian actor is one of the central stars in the ambitious high fantasy series The Wheel of Time. It has been pegged as yet another successor to Game of Thrones, the HBO drama that ...

Ione Skye isn’t holding back when it comes to her brother’s ex! In her new memoir, Say Everything, the Say Anything star opened up about her past — including what it was like spending time with ...