William Mullen

Europe's celebrated "Ice Man" mummy, whose near-perfect remains were discovered on an Alpine glacier in 1991, may have been a beaten and bloodied fugitive who died in hiding while others...

Oh! those early years! their memory is full of brightness to me. From April to November the prairies were a perpetual flower garden of ever-varying hue. Wild game was abundant;...

Betz and other prairie savants began working with cemetery boards and county governments. They wanted to get the cemeteries, many abandoned, deeded over to agencies like the Illinois Nature Preserves...

Ten miles off the southwest coast of Java in Indonesia there is an island called Tinjil, a remote and unlikely outpost in the great human struggle to find a cure...

As the first, frigid Arctic winds are beginning to wrap wintry tentacles around the Chicago area, they are coming from the frozen north with some surprising tips on how to...

It may be hard to think of a thing as big, familiar and sleekly modern as a Boeing 727 jet passenger plane as a museum curio consigned to a display...

Wildlife experts have heard a powerful and possibly disturbing message from Brookfield Zoo's Mouse House. In experiments conducted at the zoo, the common white-footed mouse, often seen scurrying around suburban...

In 1895, when James Henry Breasted arrived at the Unversity of Chicago as a newly minted professor, most of the Western world believed human history began in ancient Greece and...

As schoolboys in the 1930s at Hinsdale's Garfield Elementary School, David Grainger and Marshall Keig already understood the romance and high-tech allure of the Burlington & Quincy railroad's Pioneer Zephyr....

Ken Ramirez, director of training for the Shedd Aquarium's marine mammal collection, is one of those people who thinks that you can leave nothing to chance in matters of friendship...