This qualifies platinum as a “noble metal.” First used by pre-Columbian South American civilizations for making artifacts, native platinum can be sourced in the alluvial sands of rivers.

This story is the first of three about the building housing the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry in Jackson Park.

Measurement standards underlie most fields of science – without them, researchers couldn’t compare the results of different ...

Syphilis was perhaps the only disease to ride the Columbian Exchange eastward.) But the blood of the new arrivals, and the mosquitoes that crossed with their ships, changed everything. Just twenty ...

Meanwhile, art history buffs head to the Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art (Museo Chileno ... the museum for its versatile collection of artifacts and well-designed layout.