Nearly 400 years ago Galileo performed the first recorded laboratory experiment, timing balls as they rolled down an inclined plane to test his theory of acceleration. Since that time, laboratory ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

End of the line: Borexino (pictured) and the Large Volume Detector will shut down within the next two years. (Courtesy: Borexino Collaboration/LNGS-INFN) Physicists ...

Last year, in July, Reine Protacio’s experiments suddenly stopped working. Every scientist encounters baffling results from time to time; you chalk it up to error, repeat the experiment, and hope for ...

Across scientific disciplines, large language models (LLMs) are being used to solve various research problems. At Carnegie Mellon University, scientists have used LLMs to create an intelligent lab ...

Lab animals used for research by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have a new lease on life. A recent policy change by the federal agency now permits the adoption, transfer and retirement of ...

Picture a jeweler at work. Magnifier in hand, he examines a stone, studying the way light dances off it. He’s trying to determine whether it’s a diamond or merely cut glass, of engagement-ring quality ...