William Mullen

Thanks to a team of Field Museum biologists, Ecuadorian scientists and a tiny tribe of Indians who have stubbornly held to their traditional life in the rain forest, Ecuador as...

Late at night in Chicago in the 1920s, people looking for a good time streamed to "The Stroll," a strip of Bronzeville nightclubs called "black and tans" because they welcomed...

When the work order says Job 306 at the Bybee Stone Co. these days, the 100 or so cutters and carvers who ply their ancient crafts here put a little...

Less than a year from now, people who want the bone-rattling feel of a space shuttle liftoff or a direct link with the International Space Station may have to go...

M'Chawi, a 23-year-old chimpanzee who in July took the reins of leadership for his newly enlarged chimp group at Lincoln Park Zoo, collapsed and died late Monday morning in front...

Citing the slowing economy, the Museum of Science and Industry on Thursday announced it is laying off 26 employees, making it the third major Chicago museum to cut staff since...

Contrary to popular legend, life in the Americas before hordes of diseased European conquerors and settlers descended upon them was not always some sort of healthy, harmonic paradise in which...

Shedd Aquarium's whale pools, which produced five beluga pregnancies in the last few years, became a much more prim and proper place this month when the last adult male moved...

The theory that meteorites had fallen into an Indiana back yard during the Leonid meteor shower came crashing down Wednesday when a Field Museum expert examined the suspicious objects. "This...