laboratories

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Microplastics scientists are finding the tiny particles everywhere, even in their own research laboratories.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Vials such as these are used by medical professionals to transport swab samples taken from patients to laboratories for analysis, in order to determine whether the patient is suffering from an infection.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026

The referee suggested that once the axion is discovered and its properties -- especially its mass -- are known, experiments like this could become much more accessible and might even be used in teaching laboratories.

From Science Daily • Apr. 27, 2026

The idea of orbital solar-power systems has been around for decades, discussed in the pages of an Isaac Asimov science fiction story published in 1941 and explored at universities and government research laboratories.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026

Scientists who tried managing energies of the necessary magnitude often ended up with equipment blown to smithereens and laboratories littered with glass shards.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik