Humans have unwittingly been carrying out evolution experiments for millennia through the domestication of plants, animals, and fungi. Starting with the seminal experiments of William Dallinger in the ...

Performance of lab balances can be affected by environmental conditions and influences from samples and users, leading to deviations from the instrument specifications. To address this, Sartorius ...

The virus that causes COVID-19 can survive for nearly a month in cooler, dark conditions on some nonporous surfaces such as glass and money in controlled laboratory conditions, according to a study ...

When a wildfire burns into urban areas at the wildland-urban interface, the chemical composition of the fire’s plume changes. To understand the changes, scientists are simulating these interface fires ...

Hungry laboratory animals tend to live longer. Over and over, in organisms ranging from fruit flies to mice (and sometimes even in primates), scientists have seen that cutting back on food extends ...