William Mullen

Neanderthals, the heavy-browed cavemen who once populated Europe and then disappeared with the rise and spread of modern humans, apparently lived on 100 percent meat diets, only rarely biting into...

The story of the Amazon River's annual cycle of flooding and drying out is such a sprawling saga that the Shedd Aquarium had to break down venerable, 70-year-old walls to...

On April 1, 1995, at 4 a.m., the Maryland control center for the Hubble Space Telescope directed the bus-size satellite to focus its eye on a distant object in the...

An ancient city in Syria discovered by scientists from the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute shows evidence that the age of cities and civilization dawned even earlier than previously believed....

The chocolate-brown skeleton of the monster is poised menacingly at the north end of the Field Museum's cavernous Stanley Field Hall, her head cocked to the left, glaring at the...

Dead for 67 million years, the Tyrannosaurus rex named Sue still has the power to trample and wound those who get close to her. Her unveiling Wednesday at the Field...

TYRANNOSAURUS SUE: The Extraordinary Saga of the Largest, Most Fought Over T. Rex Ever Found By Steve Fiffer W.H. Freeman and Co., 248 pages, $24.95 This month the Field Museum...

Forget the hatching chicks. These days, crowds at the Museum of Science and Industry are gathering around an exhibit of squeaking mice, which have an altogether different tale to tell...

Twenty-five years after the fall of Saigon, Heather French, Miss America 2000, will be in Chicago Saturday in a stop on her national campaign to warn Vietnam veterans that their...

The west suburbs of Chicago, with their howling winters, are not the sort of place a gardener would normally try to plant an outdoor jungle modeled on equatorial Africa's Ituri...