Can mindfulness, meditation and other tools designed to boost well-being make a difference? Adam Levy investigates. Relentlessly pursuing perfection in science can mean that researchers are in ...

Every experiment produces results—and byproducts. Plastics, solvents, and energy use add up quickly in research settings, but a growing number of laboratories are showing that waste doesn’t have to be ...

Inside a New Mexico lab, researchers estimate there is five bottle caps worth of plastic in human brains. Now they are trying to find out its effects. By Nina Agrawal Nina Agrawal shadowed University ...

It takes intense pressure and temperatures north of 2,000 degrees for a diamond to form deep within the Earth. But these days, there’s another way to create a diamond: in a lab, where a diamond can go ...

In the span of less than a decade, lab-grown diamonds (LGD) have transitioned from a niche alternative and industrial stone (which was mostly used for industrial purposes) to one of the most ...

Stronger links between researchers who work on Earth’s and other planets’ atmospheres, and between the experimental, modelling and observational communities, will help to interpret the astronomical ...