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From reactor to reality: rebuilding the laboratory in VR Multilingual AI support is also critical. We often assume everyone is comfortable in English, but many learners were trained in other languages.

As laboratory science enters an era defined by automation, AI, and data-driven decision-making, many organisations find themselves constrained by legacy informatics systems built for a very different world. Burkhard Schaefer has been in the laboratory informatics community for more than 25 years.

From legacy to leverage: A smarter path to AI in the chemical sector The biggest misconception is that you need immaculate data and a fully modernised tech stack before you can do anything useful. That's simply not true. Credit: STFC The STFC Hartree Centre Director, Kate Royse, explains why imperfect data shouldn’t stall innovation—and how staged adoption, strong governance and human expertise unlock measurable value from AI.

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Decoding Disease at Scale: Inside Vanderbilt’s Center for Computational Systems Biology Its research philosophy emphasises early detection and early intervention in cancer, an area that is scientifically important but less commercially driven Credit: Vanderbilt University Launched in January 2025, Vanderbilt University’s Center for Computational Systems Biology (CCSB) brings together computational scientists, engineers, biomedical researchers, and clinicians to turn massive, multimodal...

Engineering trustworthy robots: Inside RoboStar’s mission to make robotics safe and verifiable Importantly, we have pursued automation of self-adaptation to produce robots that can deal with uncertainties with higher levels of autonomy Credit: University of York How mathematics-driven software engineering, international collaboration, and system-level thinking are redefining safety and autonomy in modern robotics Register for FREE to keep reading Join 12,000+ scientists, engineers, and IT...

When Scientific Computing first explored the design of laboratory robots for derisking the discovery of novel compounds, the focus was firmly on the physical challenge: enabling robots to operate safely and effectively in human-designed environments. Since then, progress has been rapid, but not always as initially imagined. Rather than fully autonomous robots roaming freely through laboratories, most early deployments have focused on bench-based integration.

Developing quantum devices capable of advancing chemistry research The major challenge, really, for all of us who are using those devices today is to try to get a set of qubits to play a tune Credit: Institute of Informatics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Qubit topology, communication overhead, and noise fundamentally shape the performance and scalability of quantum computing systems.

Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELNs) offer a smarter, more connected way for researchers to capture, share, and manage experimental data, but convincing scientists to give up paper is no small task. At the University of Southampton, a decade-long effort to implement ELNs has combined technical development with a deep understanding of academic workflows and human behaviour.

Accelsius closes $65 million Series B funding to scale liquid cooling for data centres Cooling for AI and HPC data centres Credit: Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock Strategic investment fuels Accelsius’ rapid growth and the deployment of proprietary high-cooling capacity reference designs, backed by Johnson Controls and Legrand to meet the thermal demands of the AI era Register for FREE to keep reading Join 12,000+ scientists, engineers, and IT professionals driving innovation through informatics,...