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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 teenager's insight into thermoelectric conversion proved that the warmth in your palm contains enough energy to illuminate the dark—no batteries required.
Sep 1, 2026
Sparse insect DNA in ancient northern Eurasian dental calculus and 9,000-year-old chitinase patterns point to a deep ecological history without identifying a gene for disgust.
Aug 31, 2026
Chinese cabbage waste reached about 18 MPa in bending after drying and heat-pressing. The edible lab prototype was not a structural-concrete or food-safety test.
Aug 30, 2026
A Polish zoo has witnessed something extraordinary: a Komodo dragon born from an unfertilized egg, with no father, challenging what we thought possible in one of nature's most formidable predators.
Aug 30, 2026
A team at Southern Illinois University transformed plastic waste and crop residue into edible protein through fermentation and 3D printing—but regulatory caution means the cookies remain untasted.
Aug 30, 2026
Sentinel-1 caught Petermann Glacier shedding a 76 km² ice island on 4 August, while two larger rift-bounded sections remain possible rather than scheduled future calvings.
Aug 30, 2026
The economics of unlimited AI subscriptions are imploding: power users are extracting tens of thousands of dollars in value from plans that cost mere hundreds.
Aug 30, 2026
The economic case for replacing workers with AI isn't nearly as simple as capability—most automation still costs more than keeping humans on the job.
Aug 29, 2026
Pathway's 150-million-parameter BDH-CQ reached 29.5% pass@2 on ARC-AGI-1 at a computed $0.00070 per task, but the cost and accuracy comparison needs careful accounting.
Aug 29, 2026
For the first time, scientists have captured atmospheric samples from when our ancestors first walked upright, frozen in ice that predates any previous climate record by half a million years.
Aug 29, 2026
A machine-learning competition finally cracked a puzzle that had stumped scholars for 250 years: how to read ancient scrolls without destroying them.
Aug 28, 2026
A 2026 review argues that warming, nutrient pollution and slow water renewal are pushing aquatic oxygen toward unsafe change, while stressing that no formal global threshold exists.
Aug 28, 2026
A satellite-and-well reconstruction finds groundwater losses concentrated in heavily irrigated downstream basins, while a temporary influx of meltwater complicates the outlook.
Aug 27, 2026
A placebo-controlled Phase 3 trial reports an 87 percent reduction in hereditary-angioedema attacks after one gene-editing treatment, while long-term durability remains under study.
Aug 27, 2026
