Steve Johnson

After a 3-1/2-month hiatus, dolphin presentations at Brookfield Zoo will resume Saturday, the zoo announced Thursday. The regular shows were canceled beginning in mid-October so staff could care for two...

To the world's lengthening list of possible leisure-time activities, you can add this rather surprising one: Do hard-core, but not particularly hard, scientific research. Thanks to Zooniverse, a project headquartered...

Actor James Franco will talk poetry and filmmaking as he headlines a February event in Chicago, the Chicago Humanities Festival announced Wednesday. On Feb. 19, the Humanities Festival and The...

When "Out at CHM" began in 2004, the idea for the series was "to do more inclusive history about the city of Chicago, to do more history that was risk-taking,"...

The Shedd Aquarium will be closed next Wednesday and Thursday, Jan. 22 and 23, for what the institution calls "routine maintenance and cleaning." This comes as the aquarium is in...

Even if you didn't catch the run of "Illumination," the Morton Arboretum's dramatic and innovative holiday-season lighting of trees on its grounds, you've probably seen some of the other work...

You may think you're working hard. But relative to other mammals, you're kind of a slacker. Primates, including humans, expend about half the energy in daily activities compared to similarly...

You may think you're working hard. But relative to other mammals, you're kind of a slacker. Primates, including humans, expend about half the energy in daily activities compared to similarly...