Trine Tsouderos

As Chicago-area scientists got the word that President Barack Obama will repeal federal restrictions on embryonic stem-cell funding Monday, the response was less a celebration than a sigh of relief....

At the Uptown intersection of West Wilson and North Magnolia Avenues, you can feast on Ghanaian turkey stew, take afternoon tea, shop for cocoyams and smoked cow's feet, check your...

A few hours before Travis the chimpanzee mauled a Connecticut woman so badly that medical personnel who treated her sought therapy, the famed primatologist Frans de Waal was in Chicago...

Hundreds of scientists are in Chicago for the 175th annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which ends Monday. Two Tribune reporters filed online dispatches throughout...

In highly anticipated cases with millions of dollars on the line, a special federal vaccine court ruled Thursday against three families who say vaccines caused their children's autism, strongly dismissing...

A new Indiana University study finds that some women are extremely good at faking it. By "it" we mean interest in a man. (What, you thought we meant something else?)...

We know how hard it is to settle on a name for your little boy. You want something original. After all, you're not giving birth to just anybody, are you?...

It's deep winter. You want nothing more than to become one with the couch, to live in your jammies, to burrow down into the depths of blankets and flannel and...

Seventy-two cents will buy you one divine chocolate-glazed doughnut and a generous helping of cozy nostalgia, courtesy of the Oak Park Bakery, an establishment that feels like it was transported...