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Laboratories

Edison’s laboratory

Inside Thomas Edison’s Botanical Laboratory

How Henry Ford and Thomas Edison forged a friendship that led to Edison’s final obsession: rubber.

Sponsored By Fort Myers

Inside Sacré-Coeur Hospital lies an unassuming lab that peers into the mysteries of our sleeping minds.

Inside Montréal’s ‘Dream and Nightmare Laboratory’

In a century-old hospital, a team of “dream engineers” investigates the science of uneasy sleep.

Kate Golembiewski November 8, 2024

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Lab 111

An independent cinema housed in a former pathological anatomy laboratory.

Fujisawa, Japan

Morse Seaside Laboratory Site

The oft-overlooked site of one of the first marine biological research facilities in the world.

Marlborough, New Hampshire

The Caterpillar Lab

This curious and colorful space invites visitors to delve into the hidden and often mind-boggling world of caterpillars.

Saranac Lake, New York

Saranac Laboratory Museum

A former infectious disease laboratory chronicles how tuberculosis shaped a village nestled in the Adirondacks.

Sulphur Mountain Cosmic Ray Station

Since its original beginnings as a weather observatory mountaintop, this facility played an instrumental role in gathering atmospheric data for almost 100 years.

Scientists estimate there are some 4,000 bees native to the United States alone—but many of them are struggling to survive in our warming, pesticide-ridden world.

To Save America's Native Bees, the Oregon Bee Project Is Mapping Every Single One

The project aims to make a complete 'bee atlas,' detailing every single local pollinator.

Kate Raphael September 22, 2023

J. Robert Oppenheimer, in an undated photo, doing math without looking.

Wonder Is Everywhere: Inside Oppenheimer’s Los Alamos, the End of the Hermit House, and More From Around the Web

Get a peek into what we’re obsessed with right now.

April White July 21, 2023

The basket star (<em>Gorgonocephalus eucnemis</em>), on display at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, is a deep sea species related to the sea stars seen in more shallow waters.

How to Recreate the Deepest, Darkest Ocean

Revealing the unseen world under Monterey Bay.

Kevin McLean April 25, 2023

The Large Wave Flume at Oregon's O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory hosts an experiment in innovative coastal protection.

The Oregon Lab Where Scientists Are Riding the Waves to a Brighter Future

At the O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Lab in Corvallis, massive simulators allow researchers to test innovative ideas about sustainable energy, saving coastlines, and more.

Annalee Newitz February 3, 2023

Physics of the Sun

Changikhisarak, Uzbekistan

Physics of the Sun

More than 10,000 small mirrors cover the curved surface of the world's second-largest solar oven, located in a remote village in Uzbekistan.

Art historians enlisted the help of Argonne National Laboratory to study artist Wolf Vostell's <em>Betonbuch</em> (<em>Concrete Book</em>).

Can Science Solve the Mystery of the Concrete Book?

When a sledgehammer isn't really an option.

April White September 22, 2022

An agar plate (petri dish used to culture microorganisms) with multiple yeasts growing.

Inside the Beer Lab That’s Wrangling Wild Yeasts

Bootleg Biology unlocks new flavors for brewers.

Maggie Gigandet April 14, 2022

Holmdel, New Jersey

Bell Laboratories Transistor Water Tower

This water tower commemorates the invention of the transistor on this site in 1947.

Podcast: The World’s Quietest Room

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

The Podcast Team October 18, 2021

Edison's desk, which has remained untouched since the day he died.

West Orange, New Jersey

Thomas Edison National Historical Park

Take a step into the workshop where Edison and his employees revolutionized the world.

Fermilab's bubble chamber, a device used to detect and study subatomic particles, looks like it's straight out of science fiction.

9 Stunning Scientific Sites in Illinois

50 States of Wonder