Last year, in July, Reine Protacio’s experiments suddenly stopped working. Every scientist encounters baffling results from time to time; you chalk it up to error, repeat the experiment, and hope for ...

First, AI came for the writers. Then the coders and artists. Now it appears to be eyeing scientists too. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have built an AI system that can do ...

Even the most adept researchers may not know exactly what they do to get successful results. An A.I. model is trying to figure it out by watching every move. Researchers at Transfyr use sensors and ...

A new leap in lab automation is shaking up how scientists discover materials. By switching from slow, traditional methods to real-time, dynamic chemical experiments, researchers have created a ...

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 ...

I've always learned physics best by doing. It's a cycle of trying, failing, and trying again. That's what pushed me to build ...