Move over, T. rex: Field Museum shows off the diversity of dinos from outside America

by Ryan Smith on May 30, 2018 at 5:00AM

How to meet and greet little green men

by Steve Heisler on April 27, 2018 at 6:00AM

will be like ET and start talking right away. It won't be like that at all!"

The 20,000-word article on bees that would forever define the Reader

by Julia Thiel on March 28, 2018 at 6:00AM

The paper does have a history of extremely long cover stories, and I’ve heard it used to be a running joke that no one ever finished reading them. It wasn't even the longest article ever published in the Reader: in the 1990s there were several essays by Lee Sandlin that each came to more than 30,000 words in length.

The two most-read Reader stories of all time both involve major disappointments

by Aimee Levitt on March 16, 2018 at 6:30AM

That, by the way, is why the journalism business is totally fucked. Nobody can figure out why "My husband violated the ground rules I'd set for our threesome" and "Health: Does Coffee Make You Sleepy?" continue to be so popular week after week after week.

Beneath Chicago lies an entire second city of ants

by Aimee Levitt on September 6, 2017 at 9:00AM

Almost none of these ants, it's true, are specific only to Chicago. Much of the material in the book has been repurposed from Spicer Rice's other books, most notably Dr. Eleanor's Book of Common Ants.

Where to watch the total eclipse in Chicago

by Steve Heisler on August 18, 2017 at 5:12PM

Chicago Park District The Park District is hosting family-friendly viewing parties at 20 park locations across the city. Viewing glasses provided by the Adler Planetarium will be distributed, while supplies last.

It’s the end of the world at the Museum of Science and Industry and we feel fine

by Aimee Levitt on June 22, 2017 at 3:42PM

The exhibit is not entirely gloom and doom, though. There are some select curios from the atomic age, including a comic book called Learn How Dagwood Splits the Atom featuring Dagwood Bumstead, an atomic energy lab kit, and a build-it-yourself model of an atomic power plant.

Obama’s first post-presidency speech and the March for Science were nonpartisan to a fault

by Ryan Smith on April 28, 2017 at 1:54PM

The Science March should have focused on the fact that the Trump administration is rolling back Obama's environmental policies. If Trump's agenda were to be fully implemented, one study by research consultancy Rhodium Group estimates, the cumulative gap between Trump's policies and Obama's policies could exceed four billion metric tons of carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere—in effect changing the trajectory of the world's efforts to curb global warming.

How museum curators deal with the issue of race

by Aimee Levitt on April 28, 2017 at 8:00AM

Each of their museums has a different challenge in dealing with racism. The Jim Crow Museum is a collection of racist objects; it is, in effect, a museum of racism.

Scenes from Saturday's March for Science

by Aimee Levitt on April 23, 2017 at 1:15PM