When I usually examine lichens, I am in a forest, peering at frilly growths on tree branches with my hand lens. Or on exposed rocks high in the Alps, or old gravestones, or the rocky seashore, in the ...

A long-standing belief surrounding super shoes is that they’re only “good” for one race. As the miles accumulate, it’s true that the foam compresses and loses its spring, reducing the shoe’s ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced Monday that it will cut around 550 jobs — around 10% of its staff. In a statement posted online, the lab’s director, Dave Gallagher, said the layoffs are ...

Brookhaven National Laboratory’s first female director has stepped down two years after coming from the West Coast to take the post, the Upton lab announced Tuesday. JoAnne Hewett decided earlier this ...

Tests by two foreign laboratories show that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned before he died in an Arctic penal colony last year, his wife said Wednesday. Russia’s prison service ...

EXCLUSIVE: Film Independent has selected six writers for its 2025 Episodic Lab. Running in person this year from August 11-22, the lab’s participants are Bryce Cracknell, Spencer Jamison, Rom Lotan, ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Writers Lab, a first-of-its-kind program dedicated exclusively to elevating the work of women and nonbinary screenwriters over forty, has made its 2025 selections. This year’s program ...

In chemistry, solvents (generally in liquid form) are used to dissolve, suspend or extract other materials, typically without chemically altering either the solvent or the other materials. Solvents ...

Another place AI is marking a particular big impact is weather forecasting. Google is continuing its work in the area with a new Weather Lab website and experimental cyclone, or hurricane, predictions ...

There’s a growing trend where couples are saying "yes" to lab-grown diamond rings. These sparkly stones are made in a lab instead of being mined from the Earth like a natural diamond, but they look ...

Trilobio, developer of whole lab automation solutions for advancing biology research, today introduced the first version of its comprehensive robotics, lab equipment and software platform at the ...