The terms "bug" and "insect" are commonly used interchangeably in everyday language, yet scientifically, they refer to distinct categories of creatures. Insects belong to the vast class Insecta, ...

For nearly two centuries, a point of Chicago’s civic pride has been its connection to the natural world. One of our mottos, “Urbs in Horto,” extols ours as a city in a garden. Yet not everyone in the ...

Creating a zombie in real life has been a bit more complicated for Erin Sharp, a junior at Fullerton Joint Union High School, than how it happens in “The Walking Dead.” Sharp spent weeks learning the ...