Get some fresh air today by joining a free garden tour at the Lincoln Park Zoo (2001 N. Clark). Every second Saturday, a staff horticulturist leads groups through the zoo’s gardens, identifying what’s in bloom, noting fauna attractive to pollinators and animals, and answering questions about our natural environment. Summer tours are focused on prairie […]
Tag: science
Posted inFood & Drink
Something magic’s growing at Back of the Yards Algae Sciences
Vivid green fluid silently courses down a vertical stack of cascading glass tubes on the third floor of the Plant, the sustainability-oriented Back of the Yards small business incubator where the meat-packer Peer Foods once processed industrial quantities of ham, bacon, and sausage in cavernous stainless steel smokers. Nearby, spirulina-spiked Beyond Burgers sizzle and char […]
Posted inCity Life
From the gallery to the Alley
Upcoming events and recommendations for the weekend and beyond
Posted inCity Life
Reopenings, discussions, and ¡WEPA!
Upcoming events and recommendations from our listings coordinator
Posted inNews & Politics
Three organs, one life
The heart, liver, kidney triple crown is something of a specialty for UChicago Medicine. For Daru Smith, a triple transplant was his only hope.
Posted inArts & Culture
Big Science investigates the human condition
Hot Kitchen Collective explores both inner and outer space.
Posted inNews & Politics
The flu explainer Chicago didn’t know it needed
Health is a civic undertaking.
Posted inNews & Politics
Programs empower young women of color in STEM
High school students connect with role models, receive
hands-on training.
Posted inBlogs
Why is science still a boys’ club? A new book can’t tell us.
Instead, The Only Woman in the Room devotes most of its space to documenting one woman’s experience 35 years ago.
Posted inBlogs
Ted Cruz inches left with climate change comments—even if he doesn’t know it
“Climate change is not science,” the candidate told Glenn Beck. “It’s religion.”
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Report: Scientists are feeling sort of sulky
Pew releases a study on science and the public
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A U. of C. scientist’s robotics are helping with that cool comet mission
Tom Economou is a 77-year-old Chicago scientist with a lot at stake in tomorrow’s Rosetta mission to land on a comet.
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Has anyone ever gone into journalism for the prestige?
As usual, the Harris Poll ranks journalists low in prestige
Posted inArts & Culture
How Emily Graslie went from YouTube science star to full-time at the Field Museum
A 20-year-old aspiring artist visited a zoological museum. Four years later, Emily Graslie is working at the Field Museum.