William Mullen

The Titanic, as a museum exhibit, proved to be unsinkable Friday at the Museum of Science and Industry when respectable crowds braved some of the nastiest weather of the winter...

On April 14, 1912, at 11:40 p.m., Frederick Fleet, the lookout in the crow's-nest 50 feet above the deck of the Titanic, gonged the ship's bell three times to warn...

Scientists, as a new exhibition at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum goes to great lengths to explain, are only human. That fact can sometimes have consequences ranging from preposterous to...

Directly or indirectly, plants supply all food that humans consume, most of our medicines and much of the material we rely on for shelter and clothing. As head of the...

A 13- by 20-foot piece of the hull from the doomed ocean liner Titanic, complete with portholes from two first-class cabins, took up a niche of the Museum of Science...

George Washington's famous false teeth arrived in Chicago Wednesday, and though they're not wooden at all, they are not very pretty, either. The teeth, some human, others manufactured from elephant...

When it comes to finding interesting and beautiful objects to adorn the homes of the well-to-do, David Herskowitz thinks he has stumbled upon something that makes a Jasper Johns painting...

The death of a beluga whale mother at the Shedd Aquarium last month apparently was caused by bacteria-contaminated fish fed to her by keepers and sold by wholesalers who supply...

Dancing and singing, crying and embracing, some of Chicago's most spirited revelers welcomed the new year Friday in churches, where they celebrated the epochal moment with an eye on eternity....

The Shedd Aquarium's 5-month-old, nursing beluga calf, orphaned when her mother died suddenly over the weekend, was eating fish out of the hands of keepers on Tuesday morning. On Monday,...