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lab

[lab] / læb /
NOUN
laboratory
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NOUN
testing ground
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Stephanie Leach, a sixth-year graduate student in Hwang's lab, contributed to the design of the project, led the experiments conducted with participants, and co-led preparation of the manuscript.

From Science Daily Aug. 20, 2026

"Everything came crashing down. It was terrifying," Cristina Ruiz Lopez, a lab worker who was at a supermarket in Granada when the earthquake hit, wrote on X.

From Barron's Aug. 18, 2026

Rachel, who was 39 at the time, needed a sperm donor so her eggs could be fertilised in a lab to create an embryo which could then be implanted into her uterus.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

“We’re doing stuff that I didn’t ever think we’d do again in my career,” said Brady Orchard, project director of the Materials and Fuels Complex at the lab, where he has worked for 19 years.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

“In those days, weeks, months, years, now decades since 1980, Mount St. Helens has become the master teacher—an ideal lab for volcano studies,” said Carolyn Driedger.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

"We all went to the same lectures and we had the same labs, the same tutorials," he said.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

For now, Unitree’s humanoid robots find their main uses in education and entertainment, or they serve as guinea pigs in the labs of robotics researchers.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

While labs like OpenAI and Anthropic have said enterprise customer data isn’t used for training their models, some companies fear that’s not enough.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

Despite safety-testing, the AI labs building these systems are still unable to fully control them.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

Today we have "120 or so" known elements–ninety-two naturally occurring ones plus a couple of dozen that have been created in labs.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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