Neuroscientist Steve Ramirez has found ways to plant memories in mice. Here's what that could mean for humans.
After testing 150+ products under a metaphorical microscope, our lab test editor found that industry standards don't always ...
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In the Lab: Right Field BPO

We looked at 39 players roughly defined as right fielders. That includes some primary designated hitters that could be ...
Something unusual is happening inside the plutonium facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. PF-4, as it is known to top government officials, is the heart of America’s nuclear ...
After people started testing positive for hepatitis C in a coastal Florida town in December, state officials collected blood from patients, wrapped their specimens in dry ice and mailed them straight ...
Editor’s Note: This is part of a new series called Inside the Lab, which gives audiences a first-hand look at the research laboratories at the University of Chicago and the scholars who are tackling ...
Lab-grown brain tissue is too simple to experience consciousness, but as innovation progresses, neuroscientists question whether it's time to revisit the ethics of this line of research. When you ...
When scientists opened the doors of a research facility and let carefully bred lab mice loose into a fenced field, they ...
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In the lab: Center Field BPO

That happens when we get to the Astros center field question. So, the question we come to today is how detrimental strikeouts ...
Whenever scientific findings threaten people’s sense of control over their lives, conspiracy theories are never far behind. The emergence of novel viruses is no exception. New pathogens have always ...
A decade ago, scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health used ferrets to engineer a highly lethal flu virus. The purpose of the research — known as “gain of function” — was to better ...
The Black Ant Lab in Grounded is your last major exploration trial and one of the most challenging yet. Not only is reaching the lab a chore, but a powerful boss awaits you at the end as well. By this ...