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 ...

Every new generation of phone display, television screen and solar panel is the result of precision optics experiments, which use lasers and other light sources to measure the optical properties of ...

Most experiments are designed to produce a result within the working life of the person running them. This one was not, though its creator does not appear to have realized that at the time. In 1927, ...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly learning to autonomously design and run biological experiments, but the systems intended to govern those capabilities are struggling to keep pace. This is ...

Ever since I left the bench for my first lab management role, people have asked me, “Don’t you miss being in the lab and doing experiments?” My typical response is that I miss being in the lab, but I ...

A Danish startup wants to help R&D teams automate lab experiments that require visual inspections, raising $20 million in a Series A round of funding to scale its technology in the U.S. Reshape, which ...

Mahnoor Faisal is a tech journalist covering AI and productivity tools with bylines at XDA, SlashGear, MakeUseOf, Laptop Mag, and Android Police. She's been writing professionally since she was ...

OpenAI’s GPT can summarize research papers and make predictions—but can it do science? Can it generate hypotheses, design experiments, interpret results and iterate? Last summer researchers at OpenAI ...

MIT engineers developed a reconfigurable, robotic optics laboratory autonomously assembles standard optical components into desired configurations. The team showed that the robotic system could ...