The latest comic from Randall Munroe at xkcd is a graph, a scatter plot indicating the danger of research subjects. If you think hard enough, you can come up with a movie or some kind of story for each one. I thought of...

Pixar animation studios has carved out a cottage industry of making people cry. It’s an emotional, cathartic cry that makes the funny parts of their movies extra hilarious in contrast. Have you ever wondered how t...

Okay, which is better, the laboratory in the Bat Cave underneath Wayne Manor or Heisenb...  ...Heisenberg's RV? Maybe there's a better fictional laboratory that impressed you greatly, but you've forgotten...

Extreme science sometimes calls for extreme conditions. For example, SNOLAB in Sudbury, Ontario, is buried two kilometers underground in a nickel mine to explore things you can only do away from the earth's surface.Resea...

The reason mad scientists are pictured in film in labs with interconnected beakers and machinery that does incomprehensible things is because that's the way labs looked at one time. io9 has a collection of pictures of th...

On a list of the 15 heaviest coffee-drinking professions, mine only came in fourth. Scientists and lab technicians are at the top, drinking more coffee than writers, doctors, teachers, and everyone else.Among those polle...

by Mary Abraham and Jochen Rink Department of Bio...  ...o enhance the sub-optimal system of undergraduate laboratory research assistants (Researcheria virginium). Man...  ...the interaction between the undergraduate and the laboratory bench leave much to be desired. We focused on the...  ...sed on the simplest...

Sascha Mehlhase built a model of the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider out of LEGO bricks! It contains around 9,500 bricks and took 33 hours to assemble, in addition to 48 total hours of work just de...

(YouTube link) It's difficult to determine ex...  ...Lublin University of Technology's superconductor laboratory . Isn't he cute? -via Arbroath

Shannon Keith and Gary Smith started the Beagle Freedom Project to find new homes for beagles that have been used for research. They named their first rescue dogs Freedom and Bigsby, and videotaped the beagles' first bru...