Researchers at the University of Chicago have built a "self-driving" lab that uses robotics and artificial intelligence to ...

Australia's bid to detect elusive dark matter has taken a major step forward, with new research confirming that cosmic ...

A new experiment with momentum-entangled helium atoms could help unite quantum mechanics and general relativity.

While artificial intelligence (AI) models have proved useful in some areas of science, like predicting 3D protein structures, a new study shows that it should not yet be trusted in many lab ...

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 ...

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 ...

For decades, ever since biologists recognized the potential environmental harms from climate change, they have worried that ...

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