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.

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 ...

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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 ...

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, ...

Japan's robot lab operates 24/7 with zero human staff, using 10 autonomous machines to accelerate medical research and drug discovery timelines.