The cosmos is a void dotted with stars and an ever-increasing number of newly-observed planets beyond our solar system. Yet, how these stars and planets formed out of clouds of interstellar dust and ...

ALBERT, deliberately immerses automation and robotics students in real chemistry labs so they understand day-to-day experimental work ...

There is no weather in our sense of the word in space – nevertheless, soil can also “weather” in the vacuum of space if it is constantly bombarded by high-energy particles, such as those emitted by ...

In the plot of many classic science fiction novels, like Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” and H.G. Wells’ “The Invisible Man,” a curious scientist is conducting a ground-breaking laboratory experiment ...

Working in a laboratory in Paris, scientists gave a close relative of the Covid virus the chance to evolve to be more like its cousin. By Carl Zimmer In mid-2020, a team of scientists catching bats in ...

Stem Pharm, a Madison biotech startup, is using lab-created 3D "organoids" to develop a treatment for Alzheimer's disease. In April, the FDA and NIH announced plans to incentivize so-called "new ...

Until five years ago, members of the General Assembly were unaware of a dog factory farm that had operated in Cumberland County since the 1960s. When PETA’s undercover investigation exposed the ...