Article Archive
Fri, Jun 25, 2021

How to Keep Your Insufferably Hot House Cool

by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Wed, Mar 24, 2021

Visit the Dinosaurs at OMSI and Remember Earth Has Seen This All Before

by Blair Stenvick
Tue, May 5, 2020

Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Tues May 5

by Mercury Staff
Thu, Aug 22, 2019

The 2020 Presidential Race Just Lost the Only Candidate Appropriately Concerned About Climate Change

by Erik Henriksen
Tue, Jul 9, 2019

Rep. Earl Blumenauer on Climate Change: "Congress Needs to Understand This Is an Emergency and Act Like It"

by Erik Henriksen
Mon, Jan 21, 2019

Anti-Vaxxer Parents Just Got Slammed By the New York Times

by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Thu, Dec 20, 2018

Portland’s Crows Are Back. So Are the Laser-Guided Hawks That Scare Them Off.

by Sarah Vitak
Tue, Nov 27, 2018

Climate Change Experts Predict Dire Future for Northwest

by Katie Herzog
Tue, Nov 13, 2018

Mercury Sex Survey Results: Let's Talk Orgies!

by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Mon, Nov 12, 2018

Sex Survey Results: Apparently You Like Public Sex

by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Wed, Oct 31, 2018

Attention! The Mercury Sex Survey Closes on Friday, November 2!

by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Wed, Oct 17, 2018

Take the Mercury's 2018 SEX SURVEY!

by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Fri, Oct 12, 2018

Take the Mercury's 2018 SEX SURVEY!

by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Tue, Oct 9, 2018

Take the Mercury's 2018 SEX SURVEY!

by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Tue, Aug 28, 2018

The Swarm of Bees in Times Square Is Not a Metaphor for Anything

by Ned Lannamann
Thu, Jun 21, 2018

Point/Counterpoint: Should I Go to Jurassic World?

by Elinor Jones
Fri, Mar 16, 2018

The Revolution Will Be Robotized

by Kelly Kenoyer
Wed, Mar 14, 2018

Stephen Hawking Died, and I'm Sorry for That Dumb Joke in This Week's Mercury

by Erik Henriksen
Mon, Jan 29, 2018

Cuckold Study Gets Conservative Panties in a Knot

by Katie Herzog
Wed, Jan 3, 2018

Forget All This Button Talk—Space Trash Could Kill Us All

by Ned Lannamann
Tue, Dec 19, 2017

Former Head of Secret Government UFO Program Says We Are Not Alone

by Katie Herzog
Thu, Oct 5, 2017

Rejoice, for the New Season of OPB's Oregon Field Guide Starts Tonight

by Ned Lannamann
Thu, Sep 28, 2017

Monsanto Tried to Kill a Lawsuit Over Portland River Contamination. It Failed.

by Dirk VanderHart
Mon, Sep 25, 2017

Cannabis Community Fair and Book Launch

by Josh Jardine
Tue, Jul 25, 2017

Don't Worry, You'll Be Able to See Practically the Whole Eclipse from Portland Anyway

by Ned Lannamann
Mon, Jul 24, 2017

Jerks Need to Shut Up About OMSI's Baking Soda Volcano

by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Mon, Jun 19, 2017

Sun Ra and Science at Atlas Obscura's Total Eclipse Festival in Eastern Oregon

by Ned Lannamann
Tue, May 2, 2017

Should the Fast & Furious Family Go to Outer Space? A Point/Counterpoint On the Most Urgent Issue of Our Time

by Ciara Dolan and Erik Henriksen
Fri, Apr 21, 2017

Give a Shit About Science, Progress, and Equality? Then Don't Miss the March for Science

by Erik Henriksen
Wed, Feb 8, 2017

Since We Won't be Teaching Science in School Anymore, Bill Nye is Here to Save the World

by Bri Brey
Wed, Feb 1, 2017

As Snow Approaches, PBOT's Buying Road Salt... And Maybe Drones

by Dirk VanderHart
Sat, Jan 21, 2017

The Women's March on Portland is Massive, Jubilant, and Lit

by Dirk VanderHart
Fri, Dec 16, 2016

Hope You Like Being Cold!

by Ned Lannamann
Fri, Sep 30, 2016

Science News: CO2 Levels Clear Frightening Threshold. So Even if Trump Loses, We're Still Fucked

by Ethan Linck
Mon, Sep 19, 2016

Neil deGrasse Tyson Talks Ignorance, Dragons, Ibsen, and Ben DeLaCreme. You Know, the Usual.

by Matt Baume
Wed, Aug 24, 2016

Pack Your Bags, There's a New Planet For Us to Ruin!

by Jennifer Campbell
Mon, Jul 25, 2016

Contrary to Bullseye Glass's Claims, a New State Report Suggests the Company’s Been Releasing Harmful Chromium

by Daniel Forbes
Fri, Jul 15, 2016

Science News: Trump's VP Pick Mike Pence Is Bad on Global Warming and Evolution, Our Oceans Need the Volume Turned Down

by Ethan Linck
Wed, Jun 8, 2016

Why Is Portland's Cinema 21 Showing Vaxxed?

by Erik Henriksen
Tue, May 17, 2016

Scientists Have Invented Invisible Wood (Not A Penis Joke)

by Campy Draper
Wed, May 4, 2016

Jimmy Kimmel Okay with Climate Change Wiping Out Human Race (and You Will Be, Too!)

by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Tue, Jan 12, 2016

Must Read of the Day: How the Bundy "Militia" Occupation of Malheur is an Attack on Science

by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Thu, Oct 1, 2015

Fuck You, Mars.

by Erik Henriksen
Wed, Jun 24, 2015

The Science of What You Eat and Drink

by MJ Skegg
Wed, Jun 10, 2015

Dinosaurs, Disease, and Drugs—and the Scientist Behind Jurassic Park

by Nathan Gilles
Tue, May 26, 2015

How to Have Super-Cold Beer, Super Fast

by Elinor Jones
Sun, Apr 19, 2015

I Love Television™: The Horny-Making Science of Neil DeGrasse Tyson

by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Thu, Mar 19, 2015

Neil DeGrasse Tyson's New Show StarTalk Looks AH-MAY-ZING

by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Fri, Nov 21, 2014

An Airline Says the City Owes it Almost $40,000 for Supplying Potentially Poop-Tinged Water

by Dirk VanderHart
Wed, Nov 5, 2014

To Infinity and Beyond: The Mercury's Review of Interstellar

by Erik Henriksen
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