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 ...

Thanks to new technologies like artificial intelligence, scientists are increasingly freed from the constraints of the laboratory. It raises questions about how much humans should outsource to robots.

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Research involving 150 laboratory professionals shows that most labs currently operate in a so-termed ‘passive state’, using electronic laboratory notebooks (ELNs) as digital filing cabinets, or a ...

Almost every month, Emory University physicist Justin Burton and his graduate students step out of the lab and bring loud, colorful experiments to younger students.

SOUDAN, MINN. – The lab sits a half-mile underground, a three-minute trip by mine shaft, so that experiments on the universe's tiniest particles won't be interrupted by noisy cosmic rays. But on a ...