Finalists have been announced in the "name that 50-ton boulder" contest. Now it's up to the public to choose the winner.

All signs are pointing to a very strong or “super” El Niño event shaping up in the Pacific Ocean, which will affect Chicago's upcoming winter in ways forecasters are beginning to predict.

Think Open House Chicago is just for architecture buffs? Think again.

Chicago basked in rare October heat Monday, setting a new daily record high temperature of 88 degrees, blowing past the old record of 84, according to the National Weather Service.

“We’re all super motivated and we’re all super passionate, and so it’s not going to be something that fizzles out anytime soon,” said Robyn Detterline, advocacy chair with Chicago Ornithological Society.

Staff at Shedd Aquarium are mourning the loss of another rescued beluga whale, announcing the death of 27-year-old Caspian, who arrived at Shedd in August from the shuttered Canadian park Marineland.

Scientists Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for a discovery that has been used to develop countless drugs and transformed modern medicine.

After powerful storms tore through the Chicago region in August, the leaders of numerous south suburban communities were faced with recovery efforts that far exceeded the capacity of their personnel, equipment and financial resources.

he Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to three scientists whose work led to a tool that uses light to help unravel how the brain works.

Last year, Chicago lost its unofficial title as America's “rattiest city." Now the push is on to see how low its ranking can go.

Vincenzo Vitelli, a physicist at the University of Chicago, and Kaiyu Guan, an environmental scientist at the University of Illinois, were among a group of 20 fellows chosen for this year’s MacArthur Fellows Program. Recipients receive a “no-strings-attached” $800,000 award.

Preliminary medical findings released Friday are pointing to chronic gastrointestinal disease as a contributing factor in the deaths of two rescued beluga whales at Shedd Aquarium.

What’s so eye-catching about dead wood? A stump in a Chicago neighborhood has been turned into a tribute to longevity.

Shedd Aquarium shared the disheartening news of another death among the beluga whales it rescued this summer from a defunct marine park in Canada.

The Chicago region is drying out after a soggy stretch that saw multiple rounds of storms dump upwards of half a foot of rain on some municipalities.

An $18 million grant from the Bezos Earth Fund will help researchers measure how resilient these plants are to drought and other climate stressors, how much carbon they can store and for how long, and how to get the plants onto farms at scale.