If you’ve ever wondered what it would sound like if a wind-up toy, a tiny alien, and a deeply offended toddler all merged into one very round creature, allow me to introduce Archie. This French ...

Obscene language tics, called coprolalia, don’t reveal what people with Tourette’s think and feel. In fact, tics often compel people to say or do precisely what they most wish to avoid.

John Davidson's explains Tourette's tics and the BAFTA N-word incident in his first exclusive interview with Variety.

If you've been following exoplanet research over the last couple of years, you've definitely heard of K2-18b. Located 124 ...

The ability to make two distinct sounds at once is shared with human beat boxers and throat singers. The horse whinny, or neigh, has been a familiar sound at least since the animal was domesticated, ...

This rare, four-eared shelter kitten looks like he beamed in from another planet, and the internet is obsessed.

From pagan folk to noise experiments and cosmic prog, these 15 albums defy convention: rock’s strangest, boldest, most unrepeatable visions ...

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

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 ...

"There’s a suggestion of something unknown and magical," says sound designer Laia Casanovas about her work on Oliver Laxe's two-time Oscar nominee Sirat.

Prime Video is home to one of the greatest science fiction films of all time, and every fan of the genre needs to watch it.

And spoken language is more varied than written text. There are accents and dialects, meaningful hesitations that can’t be ...