A robotic arm slowly approached a glass vial, vial the size of a finger. It paused as if gauging the position, then firmly ...

Scientists are building autonomous robotic labs powered by artificial intelligence. The goal, they say, is for these robots ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists observe bumblebees rolling a ball underneath a flower to get sugar, showing complex problem-solving abilities.

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 ...

Across scientific disciplines, large language models (LLMs) are being used to solve various research problems. At Carnegie Mellon University, scientists have used LLMs to create an intelligent lab ...

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 teacher who wanted to shift from assessing compliance to assessing students’ thinking shares the tweaks she made in her ...

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 ...

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 ...