Hardy bacteria in a lab survived pressures comparable to an asteroid strike on the red planet, suggesting a hypothetical scenario in which our planet was seeded with life.

Space-based experiments show fungi can efficiently extract valuable metals from meteorites in microgravity, advancing prospects for asteroid biomining and sustainable resource use. As humans look ...

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 ...

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 ...

The race to develop a virtual scientist—an AI creation that conducts every stage of research, from idea to publication—has ...

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 ...

Ugly chocolate Christmas candies were the “aha” moment that turned a holiday treat into a lab experiment for Jessica Chastain’s middle school students. About 14 years ago, Chastain, a veteran teacher ...

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 ...

The most beautiful experiment in physics, according to a poll of Physics World readers, is the interference of single electrons in a Young’s double slit. Robert P Crease reports Simply beautiful – the ...