What’s a budding scientist to do when he/she can’t gain practice doing science in an actual lab? Why, take advantage of virtual labs, of course! The Virtual Labs: Using a Microscope app is one of a ...

The landscape of medical education is shifting rapidly, with 2026 marking a pivotal year where artificial intelligence and virtual reality merge to create accessible, high-fidelity learning ...

Under the microscope lies a specimen of a liver. Deep in concentration, a student is analyzing the structure of the tissue when the university official asks her to finish up – the lab is about to ...

Stanford researchers have built a virtual AI lab that works like a team of expert scientists. It could reshape how science gets done. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) In a quiet corner of Stanford University, ...

Virtual microscopy is reshaping medical education by offering high-resolution, interactive slide viewing without the limits of traditional microscopes. Studies highlight improved student performance, ...

Part of NASA’s Virtual Laboratory Initiative, the Virtual Microscope website and software from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign offers students and professionals a great introduction to ...

Confronted with the explosive popularity of online learning, researchers are seeking new ways to teach the practical skills of science. The academic world is in upheaval over MOOCs: massive open ...

The digital imaging of microscope slides is benefiting from machine-vision know-how in the form of high-performance linescan cameras and custom software. James Tyrrell speaks with Hamamatsu’s Paul ...

When Abigail S. Huebner ’23 was deciding which concentration to declare in fall 2020, she was hesitant about declaring engineering without having ever taken an engineering course in person. “I was ...

In BYU’s new Mixed Reality Lab, students are forging a new frontier of virtual and augmented reality. The lab becomes scattered with robots. Equipped with a headset and a controller, a player is ...

The application of virtual microscopy (VM) to research, pre-doctoral medical and dental educational training, and diagnostic surgical and anatomic pathology is well-documented but its application to ...