Robots and AI are running experiments around the clock, from battery chemistry to cancer therapies. But can they be trusted ...

Recent enthusiasm for field experiments, and especially for natural field experiments (NFEs), in which subjects go about their daily activities unaware that any study is taking place, has sometimes ...

When a star dies, it generates an explosion of elemental nuclei and hurls them into space. Those elements, called cosmic rays ...

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have switched on NASA's newly upgraded Cold Atom Lab, a one-of-a-kind facility designed to improve how scientists explore the fundamental workings of ...

The Cold Atom Lab is a facility for the study of ultra-cold quantum gases in the microgravity environment of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists are building autonomous robotic labs powered by artificial intelligence. The goal, they say, is for these robots ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. A field experiment is a research method that uses ...

Scientists observe bumblebees rolling a ball underneath a flower to get sugar, showing complex problem-solving abilities.