Australian, Japanese and US personnel have demonstrated interoperability between autonomous maritime systems during a trilateral experiment at Exercise Keen Sword 27 in Japan.

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 ...

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 ...

SOMETIME around AD 1600, Galileo Galilei is supposed to have climbed to the top of the leaning tower of Pisa and dropped two cannonballs of different sizes and weights over the edge. The point was to ...

No-one had seen this 86-year-old Australian pitch tar experiment drop, until now. THE WORLD’S LONGEST-RUNNING lab experiment, an 86-year-old block of dripping pitch tar at the University of Queensland ...

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 laboratory has been growing 12 populations of E. coli since 1988 — this year, the cultures will get a new custodian. On 24 February 1988, evolutionary biologist Richard Lenski filled 12 flasks with ...

Stephen D Turner of the University of Virginia explores the importance of governance and oversight around AI in the design and execution of lab experiments. Artificial intelligence is rapidly learning ...

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 ...