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Medical laboratory scientists collect samples and perform lab tests, calibrate and maintain equipment, and perform statistical analysis. Their work is crucial for clinicians to diagnose diseases.

With a new lab-based experiment, researchers in the UK and France have recreated the characteristic cascades of energy and angular momentum that underpin key features of Earth's atmosphere. Reporting ...

Chemistry is a laboratory science and can be most effectively taught by including robust hands-on laboratory experiences for students at both the middle and high school levels. This perspective ...

The University of Chicago is home to hundreds of the world’s most advanced laboratories and research facilities. Whether addressing climate change, inventing new medical treatments, or preserving ...

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 ...

A cage containing albino laboratory mice was one of more than 50 containers of the rodents stacked on shelves inside a clandestine lab discovered in a warehouse in downtown Reedley in December 2022.