Scientific discovery is often portrayed as the result of long hours alone in a lab, but true science is inherently collaborative. The most robust experimental processes are developed through ...

A virtual laboratory under development at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro aims to let students experiment with physics concepts without physically being in a lab. Computer simulations ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has published an extensive paper confirming the validity of its 2022 fusion experiment where multiple lasers focused on a sphere of deuterium and tritium to ...

In late 2023, a robotic laboratory at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ran nonstop for 17 days without a single human ...

OpenAI’s GPT can summarize research papers and make predictions—but can it do science? Can it generate hypotheses, design experiments, interpret results and iterate? Last summer researchers at OpenAI ...

Researchers hope to build a facility with thousands of robots capable of performing experiments independently by 2040.

A student in an Advanced Placement biology class might dissect a fetal pig to study internal organs and the skeleton. But can a student get the same level of experience from a virtual dissection ...

At the University of Queensland, there is a display containing the longest-running laboratory experiment in the world. It's been going for so long that two of its custodians have died before seeing ...

“COVID brought our research activities essentially to a complete halt,” said Jared Hysinger ’21, voicing the reality for researchers around the world whose labs have been forced to close due to ...

Nestled in an 80,000 square foot state of the art facility on Fort Benning, Ga., the U.S. Army Futures Command’s Maneuver Battle Lab (MBL) is the tip of the spear for experimentation at the Brigade ...

In the mid-1960s, inside a research laboratory run by DuPont, Stephanie Kwolek was searching for something fairly practical.