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Lab Report covers new research as it publishes. Fresh studies, first findings, and the occasional retraction, drawn from the journals and the institutions doing the work.
A decade of explosive tech expansion has left Ireland's power grid serving server farms more than all its rural homes combined, forcing uncomfortable questions about growth versus sustainability.
Sep 26, 2026
Barry Marshall’s self-experiment showed that a stomach bacterium could cause gastritis in a healthy person. The evidence linking that bacterium to ulcers came later, through studies of what happened when patients’ infections were treated.
Sep 24, 2026
California has declared a statewide El Niño emergency to pre-position sandbags, rock and fast-track coastal permits, after Hurricane Marie's swells left ten Dana Point beachfront homes red-tagged as unsafe.
Sep 23, 2026
One female saved an entire species from oblivion—now her descendants outnumber the extinction that almost was.
Sep 22, 2026
In controlled single-drop experiments, bubble-driven bacterial aerosols peaked at moderate impact speeds because porous soil trapped air that burst through the spreading raindrop.
Sep 22, 2026
A teenager's recycler turns plastic waste into 3D printer fuel with surprising efficiency—and just changed what's possible in a garage.
Sep 22, 2026
A scaffolded DNA computer in a 35-microliter magnesium-buffered droplet used molecular competition to make the low-energy configuration encode the answer to a 100-bit calculation.
Sep 22, 2026
A high schooler's homemade thermal-sensing device could help prevent one of hospitals' costliest complications—but the real test is whether it survives the messiness of clinical practice.
Sep 22, 2026
The genome-wide excess amounts to 850,715 sites against 842,063, a difference the authors themselves call small, and their own directional tests put the busiest gene flow in a wild herd rather than the feral one.
Sep 21, 2026
The clean-up-crew story that ran with the news rests on ten chewed bones out of more than eight thousand, and the dingoes blamed for the devils' disappearance appear in the paper's own data exactly once.
Sep 21, 2026
A 44.1-gram drone uses pressure-sensing artificial whiskers for wall following and tactile mapping, with its onboard autonomy occupying about 34 KB of additional RAM.
Sep 20, 2026
A superconducting qubit followed a nanomechanical resonator from its one-phonon state to the ground state, revealing a discrete jump while also exposing the readout's own back-action.
Sep 20, 2026
The discovery rewrites Antarctica's climate history—and raises urgent questions about how quickly ice sheets can collapse.
Sep 20, 2026
An Illinois factory plans to use its own retired batteries to help manage peak demand, giving the packs a second life before recycling.
Sep 19, 2026
