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 ...

The scientific progress that becomes possible if all research—not just the experiments that support the hypothesis a researcher was trying to prove—is available in a standardised format, with complete ...

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 ...

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 ...

Your browser does not support the video tag. A demonstration of how robots pick up chemicals at Atinary Technologies’ self-driving lab in Boston. Credit: Atinary ...

A competition calling for research projects involving so-called AI scientists shows just how fast this technology is moving. A number of startups and university teams that are building “AI scientists” ...