William Mullen

An experiment testing the power of subliminal messages to manipulate human behavior challenges Sigmund Freud's theory of subconscious thought, the basis of psychoanalysis. Anthony Greenwald, a University of Washington psychologist,...

Some strange and eerie noises have raised scientific eyebrows in the John G. Shedd Aquarium's Oceanarium exhibit of marine mammals. Loon calls have come from a loonless whale pool. Fire...

Thousands of window seat airplane passengers landing and taking off daily from O'Hare International Airport must catch sight of Job Ebenezer's version of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon as they...

Zoo accidents and incidents of people getting hurt or even killed by animals were more common when zoos put their big, most dangerous beasts inside heavily barred, jail-like cages. That...

Every two hours, a meteorite at least the size of a softball plunges from the heavens through the atmosphere and slams somewhere into the surface of Earth. In fact, 20...

Having paid obeisance to modern potentates and dollar deities (donors), officials breaking ground Thursday for a University of Chicago building addition prudently paid respects to some ancient spirits too. After...

On Milwaukee Avenue a block north of North Avenue, Ken Byrdy has pretty much proved the truth to the old axiom "One man's trash is another man's treasure." Byrdy himself...

Phoebe Griswold thinks it's about time Chicago brings milk cows back into the city as part of the economy. More than think about it, she heads the Chicago area branch...

A week ago Bulera, an adolescent about to give birth for the first time, was giving her guardians anxiety fits because nobody was quite sure if she was fit to...

Martin Daniel Eakes, a North Carolina community organizer who has helped the rural poor obtain $90 million in loans to start businesses and buy homes, was himself given a financial...