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Explore Research Laboratories in Virtual Reality

Have you wondered what a working laboratory looks like and who might work in these spaces? Now you can visit a university research laboratory and a start-up biotechnology company. Each tour includes places that cover the science, instruments, and tools used in a laboratory. You can also learn about the people who work in these spaces.

There are three ways to view each lab tour. You can use a computer and click and drag to look around. You can also use your smart phone like an iPhone or Android with their gyroscope enabled function to look into each lab. In this mode you can move the phone around as you to look around the lab. Finally, if you have Virtual Reality (VR) goggles like Google Cardboard, you can immerse yourself into each tour. Be sure to stand up and turn and look around to view all of the space.

We are just getting started, so bookmark this page so you can find your way back to explore more tours as they are released. We also welcome your feedback and suggestions.

How to explore the virtual laboratories

On a computer, smart phone, or tablet you can click or touch the Location Icon to move to the new area. When using goggles, you place the pointer on top of the Location Icon to move to a new area. Below are the other icons you will find in the different tours. Review the list below before you jump into these virtual worlds.

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 When you explore these different laboratories, you will want to take notes of what you see and learn. You can use your own notebook, or download our custom designed Biologist Notebook that can be used to document your travels and discoveries.

University Laboratory VR 360

Visit Arvind Varsani's virus laboratory at Arizona State University. See where cutting edge science starts and who is involved.

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As you explore this laboratory, take notes on the types of equipment and other interesting things you find. Here are a few questions to get you started.

  • What is something important to do when you're doing research?
  • What are some different ways that you can research the same subject?
  • Can you find the tardigrade, microcentrifuge tubes, gel, and penguin?
  • Are any of the researchers in lab also working on earning a degree?

OncoMyx Biotechology Company VR 360

What does it look like inside a company that is developing a drug to treat cancer? Here is an opportunity to peek inside the workings of a start-up company that is developing a new drug treatment for cancer.

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As you explore this laboratory, take notes on the types of equipment and studies you observe. Here are a few questions to get you started.

  • What is something important to do when you are in a research lab?
  • How many different ways are these researchers using to observe what is happening in cells?
  • Did you find the cell counter, the cold room, the glowing cells, and the company's CEO?
  • Did everyone in the lab need a graduate degree to be hired?
  • What was the most interesting career you learned about?

Laboratory 360 images by CJ Kazilek. Locations include Arizona State University Biodesign and Oncomyx Theraputics. Audio recording at locations by CJ Kazilek.

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  • Publisher: Arizona State University School of Life Sciences Ask A Biologist
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  • Date published: August 6, 2021
  • Date accessed: March 24, 2024
  • Link: https://askabiologist.asu.edu/explore/virtual-360-laboratories

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Most in person visits may be off limits due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but these research labs have virtual science tours that you can enjoy from home for free.

Do you want to see real science in action? We’ve compiled a list of our favorite research labs are open to members of the public who want to go inside where the science is happening. As the Covid-19 pandemic continues, most in-person visits are off limits, but many labs around the world are currently offering free virtual science tours of labs that guests of all ages can enjoy from home. Read on for descriptions and links to our top picks.

1. U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratories

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The U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratories system has 16 locations and all of them are offering virtual tours and video programming online. For example, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory you can take 360 degree virtual tours  of the facility’s  3D printing labs  and the  world’s biggest laser , the National Ignition Facility, are available on demand. At Fermilab, you can “go on the Lederman Science Center Exhibits  virtual tour . Take one of the “ 360 degree virtual tours  of Fermilab and some of its experiments including Wilson Hall and some of its experiments like Muon g-2 experiment, Main Injector particle accelerator, NuMI/MINOS underground research area for neutrino experiments.” These are just two of the locations available for virtual tours. There are plenty of resources for grade 8-12 STEM education, too. Browse all of the virtual science tours offered by the U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratories here .

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2. Royal Observatory Edinburgh, UK

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The Royal Observatory (ROE), Edinburgh is unique among UK scientific establishments in that it houses a university astronomy research group, an establishment of a UK Research Council and a Visitor Center all in one location.

ROE was established in 1786, but astronomy has been taught in Edinburgh since the opening of the town’s college in 1583. Today, ROE is a world leader in astronomy research.

ROE usually offers an abundance of tours, events, and astronomy lectures for the public, but all of these are currently suspended until further notice. However, past Astronomy Talks can now be viewed online . Additionally, The Astronomical Society of Edinburgh is also holding free online-streamed talks on their  You Tube  channel. Visit their  events page  to find out more or watch the preview below. More learn-at-home videos can be found here.

3. Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN), France & Switzerland

CERN is unparalleled among research labs. Researchers there are pursuing some of the biggest questions in physics. What is the universe made of? What happened after the Big Bang? Fortunately, the physicists at CERN have the world’s most powerful particle accelerator with which to seek answers to these questions. Under normal circumstances, CERN welcomes  tours and visitors . Of all of the laboratories open to visitors, CERN may offer the biggest bang. CERN is closed to in-person visitors during the Covid-19 pandemic, but when the lab reopens, information about in-person visits will be posted here . Meanwhile, you can take a virtual tour of the accelerator complex .

4. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Germany

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DESY (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) studies all things tiny – from biomolecular processes to particles and nanomaterials. DESY houses the world’s most intense X-ray light and particle accelerators with record speeds. DESY has locations in Hamburg and in Zeuthen. The Hamburg facility is usually open for everybody and invites you to a guided tour. No special physics knowledge is required. At the current time, all in-person tours are canceled, but you can take a virtual tour online. According to DESY, you can “have a look through the tunnels of the 3.4-km long X-ray free-electron laser facility, from the electron source in DESY-Bahrenfeld to the instruments at the Schenefeld research campus. Start from the injector by clicking the link below, and be sure to look around—you can see 360° around you in every location!” Access the virtual science tour here .

5. Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS), Italy

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Gran Sasso National Laboratory (Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso – LNGS) is a giant among research labs. Research is devoted to neutrino and astroparticle physics. As the It’s the world’s largest underground laboratory, it lives up to it’s name.

According to LNGS, “The 1400 meter-rock thickness above the Laboratory represents a natural coverage that provides a cosmic ray flux reduction by one million times; moreover, the flux of neutrons in the underground halls is about thousand times less than on the surface due to the very small amount of uranium and thorium of the Dolomite calcareous rock of the mountain.”

“Currently 1100 scientists from 29 different Countries are taking part in the experimental activities of LNGS. LNGS research activities range from neutrino physics to dark matter search, to nuclear astrophysics, and also to earth physics, biology and fundamental physics.”

The Gran Sasso National Laboratory normally offers guided tours . At the present time all in-person visits are suspended. However, virtual science tours are available. You can virtually walk through the underground LNGS facility here .

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Laboratory tours are free of charge, and are available by reservation only. Tours include an overview of the laboratory and visits to at least two research facilities: the Advanced Photon Source, ATLAS particle accelerator, and/or an exhibit hall telling the story of Argonne’s past and present research in nuclear science and engineering.

Tours are available for persons age 13 and older. Argonne’s Educational Programs and Outreach group offers science and engineering experiences for K-12, undergraduate and graduate students. Groups with minors (ages 13 – 17) must provide an adult chaperone for every 12 minors visiting.

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  • All guests must be accompanied by Argonne-Approved Tour Guides for the duration of the visit. Public and Group tour registrants are NOT permitted to use on-site accommodations, including the Argonne Guest House.
  • Effective May 3, 2023, a REAL ID compliant identification will be required to gain access to Argonne National Laboratory for individuals 18 years of age or older. Visitors 16 and older will need photo identification to enter the laboratory. School ID including photo is acceptable for visitors 16 or 17 years of age. Review Site Entry Requirements for other acceptable IDs for access to Argonne National Laboratory.

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Tour availability is released on a rolling basis throughout the year. Please see release schedule below:

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Available for individuals from the general public, 13 years of age and above, including but not limited to family members, friends, and neighbors. In order to run a successful public tour, a minimum of five registrants is required. Tour dates with four or less registrants will be cancelled.

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Available for groups of 10 to 25 participants, 13 years of age and above, coming from schools, universities, special interest groups, corporations and more.

Review  Site Entry Requirements  for other acceptable IDs for access to Argonne National Laboratory.

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Hosting a Lab Tour? Here Are Some Planning Tips

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The following case study is adapted from a Theme J abstract (formerly Theme H) presented at Neuroscience 2015. Theme J abstracts cover topics related to history, teaching, public awareness, and societal impacts in neuroscience, allowing departments and organizations to showcase the work they have done in these areas.

Why Advocate?

As neuroscientists, it is critical for the future of our field that we help lawmakers understand the importance of scientific research to human health and economic development. Unfortunately, federally funded research dollars for the NIH and NSF, when adjusted for inflation, have actually decreased over the past decade. It is therefore becoming increasingly important for scientists to embrace new roles beyond the bench to explain why and how scientific research is important to legislators and the public.

Hosting a lab tour with a federal representative is one avenue to advocate the significance of scientific research, as I learned when I planned lab tour visits with congressional representatives in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Consider using the following planning timeline, tour structure, and follow up actions, which helped me facilitate scheduling and ensure that the legislators had a meaningful experience with neuroscience.

Planning Timeline

Advanced planning is necessary for a successful lab tour. As you get started, be sure to visit SfN’s page on hosting a lab tour , watch this video on guided lab tours , and contact the SfN advocacy team at [email protected] for further help coordinating logistics.  

Six Months Away

  • Obtain approval from your PI, department, and/or institution if necessary.
  • Contact your institution’s government relations office to find out their specifications and requirements for hosting a tour.

2-5 Months Away

  • Consider requesting an in-district meeting before inviting a representative for a lab tour. This can be helpful, but isn’t necessary. 
  • Send an official invitation on letterhead to your representative.
  • Follow up with an email invitation 2-3 weeks later.
  • Coordinate a time and date with congressional staffers for a tour — potentially during the August recess. 
  • Meet with an aide or staffer if a representative is too busy. They will relay the information to your legislator.

One Month Away

  • Invite 2-3 institutional leaders and/or distinguished PIs to attend the visit.
  • Research the representative’s interests and legislative committees.
  • Develop talking points and plan station stops or demonstrations.

One Week Away

Send a detailed agenda to attendees with locations, times, and key people involved.

Tour Structure

A well-constructed and thought-out lab tour will be well worth the effort. Consider these tips as you plan.

  • Be cognizant of everyone’s time constraints.
  • Use understandable language to describe your research and methods, as most representatives do not have a scientific background.
  • Incorporate experimental demonstrations and visuals throughout the tour. For example, your representative could practice cutting a brain on a microtome or view slides in a microscope. 
  • Allow for time after the tour for a roundtable discussion. Involving 2-3 administrators or distinguished PIs will provide different perspectives.
  • Share talking points on the importance of science funding for local economic development, human health, and scientific training.
  • Learn about the congressman’s view on the importance of funding scientific and biomedical research.
  • Offer yourself as a resource for further consultation on scientific matters.

Science advocacy does not end with the conclusion of your lab tour. It’s just one step towards fostering an ongoing relationship with your representative.

  • Send a follow-up email to the congressman and staffer(s) thanking them for their time and support. 
  • Share photos, your story, and advocacy advice on blogs and social media. 
  • Write a press release — including photos — to share with your institution and SfN.
  • Present an advocacy poster at a conference such as SfN’s annual meeting or outreach event. 
  • Remain up-to-date with legislation relating to science policy in the U.S. Congress. 
  • Write to your representatives sharing your opinion on current bills. 
  • Encourage other neuroscientists to incorporate advocacy and outreach into their professional activities.

A successful lab tour can help educate lawmakers about how understanding the brain impacts society and human health. Together, ongoing advocacy efforts can affect funding and policies that are critical for the future of neuroscience.

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Find out about the requirements for conducting UC San Diego laboratory tours.

UC San Diego research departments showcase their labs to engage potential new students. Since research environments can present a variety of hazards, please consult these guidelines before bringing non-research personnel into labs. The Laboratory Safety Manual provides specific guidelines regarding safety policies and practices.

There are typically two formats when providing tours.

1) Normal operations tours

If you’re planning on conducting a tour through a research lab while research activities are ongoing, the following rules apply:

  • Tour participants must wear all personal protective equipment deemed appropriate for the laboratory environment by the Principal Investigator’s Laboratory Hazard Assessment . This includes proper laboratory attire, meaning full length leg and foot coverings
  • Participants must be escorted at all times with a safety-trained individual familiar with the facility and at least two emergency exits from anywhere in the facility

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A special event tour, such as those conducted in conjunction with Triton Day, may allow for non-research personnel to enter laboratories under conditions that are less restrictive than “normal operations” tours.

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The National Institutes of Health is the nation’s medical research agency. NIH’s mission is to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability. Learn more about the NIH and the research we conduct .

The NIH Visitor Center and Nobel Laureate Exhibit Hall on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland, welcomes visitors from across the United States and around the world. NIH tour programs are designed for young adults, individuals, and small groups who are interested in learning more about how the NIH improves human health and prevents disease. The NIH Nobel Laureate exhibit honors NIH-supported intramural and extramural scientists who have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry, physiology, or medicine.

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Information for visitors to the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland, can be found on the Visitor Information page.

Directions to the Building 45 NIH Visitor Center from the Gateway Center

Walking — Exit the Gateway Center via stairs or elevator at the 2nd floor and follow the paved walkway to Building 45 known as the Natcher Building. You will be approaching the back of the building, but the doors are open. As you enter the Natcher Conference Center, continue to the main lobby, at the front of the building. From this point, the NIH Visitor Center is to your right and our entrance is left of the large framed wall poster that reads, “NIH, The Nation’s Medical Research Agency.”

Shuttle — The NIH Campus Shuttle is available from the Gateway Center and other locations. Exit at the Building 45, the Natcher Building, stop. The stop is on a circular drive, and our exterior office sign, “NIH Visitor Center Nobel Laureate Exhibit Hall,” is visible from the front of the building. Enter the main lobby, and the NIH Visitor Center is to your left. Our entrance is left of the wall poster that reads, “NIH, The Nation’s Medical Research Agency.”

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Requesting an On-Site Tour

NIH tours of the NIH Clinical Center have resumed as of June 15, 2023, on a limited basis. At this time, we are only able to accommodate and schedule tours for groups who meet the below requirements:

  • Tour groups may not exceed 15 attendees. NIH does not have the resources to split a group of 30 into two groups of 15.
  • A tour request must be submitted 14 days in advance of the desired tour date. Requests received in less than 14 days cannot be accommodated.
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  • School groups with children under the age of 17 are not permitted to receive a Clinical Center tour. We do offer an NIH overview presentation for such groups.
  • In preparing for your visit, the NIH requires a valid government photo identification prior to entry for all individuals ages 18 and above. Guests under the age of 18 without a photo ID must be signed in by a sponsor or chaperone from the visiting group.
  • NIH does not accept third-party tour requests. NIH resources may not be offered to commercial entities for profit-making events or activities.

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M id-morning on Wednesday, March 11, graduate student Mathew Rasmussen was preparing for the recruitment events that weekend, when about 50 prospective graduate students were expected to visit the chemical and biological engineering department at the University of Colorado Boulder. When his committee on graduate student recruitment got the word that the campus was closing due to the COVID-19 pandemic and student visits were canceled, they sprang into action. “We basically had all of Thursday afternoon and evening to shoot and edit the video clips before posting them on YouTube for our virtual recruitment weekend on Friday,” he says.

Getting facts and information about labs is easy to do remotely, but getting a sense of the people working there and whether you would get along with them is much harder. —Colleen McCollum, University of Colorado Boulder

Despite the rush, Rasmussen says he thinks the resulting videos...

Rasmussen’s department was far from alone in having to find workarounds to its usual in-person recruitment practices. K. Wang, who recently completed his master’s degree at the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China, was considering his options for pursuing a PhD beginning this fall, but the US banned arrivals from anyone who had been in China for the past 14 days. Rather than flying to the States to visit the department of chemical and bimolecular engineering at Georgia Tech, Wang, whose father is a property agent who’s given virtual tours to clients, suggested a virtual lab visit to the PI of the lab he was thinking of joining, he tells The Scientist . 

During the live tour, which Wang received in February from a senior member of the lab, “I basically followed the guide and when I saw an interesting equipment like a well-plate reader, the guide would explain to me what it does,” Wang says. “Although the tour was not professionally taken, it gave me a good sense of the personal physical space I will have and how the lab members are working together at common spaces. I think this is important because back in my previous lab, all the spaces are shared, and it can get quite disorganized.” In addition, the professor’s response to his proposal of a virtual tour gave Wang the impression that the professor is receptive to suggestions and quick to implement them. “This is definitely a lab culture I can see myself thriving in,” he says.

See “ A Sampling of Virtual Lab Tours ”

Virtual lab tours are not new, but they have never been as common as in-person lab tours. However, the pandemic has generated strong incentives for formerly in-person lab tours to go online. The Scientist spoke with researchers and educators with experience conducting such tours to get their tips for people new to the medium—and reasons scientists may want to continue offering virtual tours even when the COVID-19 threat is past. 

Getting started

Catherine McCusker , a biologist at the University of Massachusetts Boston, has been conducting virtual lab tours targeting K–12 students as a form of public outreach since 2013 using her laptop with a built-in camera. Student instructors usually email her to request for a tour through her lab website, and once McCusker finds a suitable time, she will run a virtual event. “I think virtual lab tours can be done well even without professional equipment once you have created a clear program of what the tour will be like,” she says. “I start by first bringing participants for a tour of my laboratory facility, followed by a short research presentation, and ending with a question and answer session.” She conducts her tours live so that she can interact with the students, and she says the response of the participants has been amazing, as they are extremely interactive, and curious about science and what scientists do in the lab.

Researchers who prefer a high-quality video production can seek professional help for their virtual lab tours. At Macquarie University in Sydney, scientific officers Prasanth Subramani and Ray Duell , whose duties include teaching and research support and lab maintenance and safety, first began developing virtual tours of new labs in the university’s biological sciences department for prospective undergraduate and graduate students eight years ago. Subramani says that in addition to professional videography, a good script is crucial; in their videos, the storylines highlight the benefits of the spaces being toured and paint a picture of the lab experience there. Once Subramani and Duell have finalized their script, they work with colleagues in the university’s marketing department to film and edit it. As an alternative, researchers could contract with a professional videographer from outside the university, Subramani notes. 

In many ways, a virtual lab tour can be more advantageous than a physical one. —Wendy Jarrett, Understanding Animal Research

Once a video is put together, “it is also useful to get feedback on the draft production from multiple stakeholder groups before making the virtual lab tours public,” Subramani says. He’s heard from prospective students and researchers that the virtual tours helped contribute to a positive first impression of the department.

Creating a highly professional virtual lab tour can take significant effort, according to Wendy Jarrett , the head of Understanding Animal Research, a UK advocacy group. “It’s not possible to create the perfect tour without the buy-in of all the staff involved, especially the senior management,” she notes. “You also need an internal ‘champion’ of the project who can lead and make sure that staff are available for videos and photography.” 

The human touch

Colleen McCollum , a graduate student in the same department as Rasmussen, was tasked with creating a lab tour for the department’s virtual recruitment weekend. “My lab mates felt that getting facts and information about labs is easy to do remotely, but getting a sense of the people working there and whether you would get along with them is much harder,” she says. Her lab decided to gear their tour toward reflecting the lab’s fun side and sense of community by injecting humorous sound effects and explaining experiments in simple terms. McCollum adds that if she’d had more time, she “would have included clear captions to improve accessibility and contact information . . . in case prospective students have questions.”

Including the human element may be complicated by the fact that many labs currently have few to no people working onsite due to social distancing measures. But there are ways to convey hints of the lab community even when members aren’t physically present, says Alex Dainis , who as a PhD student at Stanford University filmed virtual lab tours for the general public at night when there no lab members were working, and who went on to found Helicase Media, a company that provides science communications and video production services, in 2019. “One way to introduce the audience to the people working in the lab is to include the little things that make a lab personal,” she says—“a picture someone’s child has drawn at their desk, or the paper mustache someone has pasted onto the centrifuge, or the dog quote calendar by the door. These little things remind viewers that the lab is a place where real people work.”

Continuing virtual tours after the pandemic

Researchers with experience filming virtual tours say they offer great value, and not just when labs and universities are closed. “Virtual lab tours are great educational tools to provide the public with more information about research,” says Jarrett. She and her colleague Richard Scrase have been creating professional tours of animal facilities since 2016 to explain to the public why animals are used in research. 

“It’s great for people, not just scientists, to visit a research facility, but it’s just not practical to have too many people touring facilities,” Jarrett says. Virtual tours can reach more people, she says, and are more accessible for people with mobility difficulties or other medical conditions. “Furthermore, visitors can sit at home at their own comfort to explore our facilities. They can focus on things they find interesting and skip areas that do not interest them so much,” Jarrett notes. “In many ways, a virtual lab tour can be more advantageous than a physical one.” 

Virtual tours can also contribute to formal learning, says David Hampton , who runs an online master’s program in translational neurology at the University of Edinburgh and uses virtual lab tours for his classes and to create a sense of community. Using a 360 ° camera and video editing software, he has developed interactive tours to give his students a flavor of the environment in clinical and laboratory settings. The tours, which include information about different clinical environment and their impact on patients, as well as lab equipment and procedures, “work as teaching materials for my students who are learning remotely and may never step foot on the campus and the labs,” Hampton says. And videos of Edinburgh landmarks, including the university campus and the National Museum of Scotland , give his students a peek into the environment in the city, he adds, helping to build a sense of community.

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Explore the nation’s laboratory for nuclear energy

Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is the nation’s laboratory for nuclear energy research, development, demonstration and deployment. It is our mission to ensure the nation’s energy security through safe, competitive and sustainable energy systems and unique national and homeland security capabilities.

Sign up for one of our Virtual tours to learn more.

Virtual Tour: Nuclear 101

Nuclear power accounts for 55 percent of all carbon-free electricity in the U.S and lowers emission by more than 476 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. This tour will explain the basics of how to make electricity by splitting an atom.

Virtual Tour: INL History

What started as the National Reactor Testing station in 1949 has become the nation’s laboratory for nuclear energy research and development. Learn more about the history of the lab from the end of World War II up to present day, as well as common misconceptions about nuclear energy.

Virtual Tour: INL Facilities

INL provides innovations in nuclear research, renewable energy systems and security solutions that are changing the world. Learn more about some of the lab’s flagship facilities like the Advanced Test Reactor, the Hot Fuel Examination Facility and the Energy Systems Laboratory.

Virtual Tour: 52 Reactors

Fifty-two reactors have been built and operated on INL’s 890-square-mile site since 1949 and more than 300 commercial nuclear power reactors operating around the world trace their roots to eastern Idaho. This tour spotlights the reactors INL has developed and how they have pushed forward the peaceful use of nuclear power for the U.S. and the world.

Virtual Tour: Experimental Breeder Reactor-I (EBR-I)

EBR-I is a National Historic Landmark where usable electricity was first generated from nuclear energy in 1951. It’s the only place in America you can see four nuclear reactors — including two aircraft nuclear propulsion prototypes, a reactor control room, remote handling devices for radioactive materials, radiation detection equipment, and much more.

Virtual Tour: Shoshone-Bannock Pre-Contact

Travel through Idaho’s past to learn the traditional lifeways of the Shoshone and Bannock people. Southern Idaho has been part of the traditional territory of the Shoshone and Bannock people for millennia. Learn how their culture and lifeways are connected to the landscape and resources of the INL and the eastern Snake Plain.

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Advanced Test Reactor

Unlike  Experimental Breeder Reactor-I  (EBR-I), the purpose of ATR is not to produce electricity. Instead, the ATR is a virtual time machine for researchers. By design, it produces an extremely high number of neutrons compared to a nuclear power plant. This enables scientists to place materials in the ATR and expose them to higher concentrations of neutrons, speeding up the aging process; researchers can see and understand in a few weeks or months what would take years or decades to see under normal reactor operation. ATR also produces radioactive isotopes used in medicine and industry, including cobalt-60, which is used to treat brain or breast cancer, and plutonium-238 to heat and power NASA missions.

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Materials and Fuels Complex

Next, the virtual tour heads to the Materials and Fuels Complex (MFC), where you will see the dome of the historic Experimental Breeder Reactor-II. EBR-II provided a portion of INL’s power for three decades before it was shut down in 1994.

We will learn about the Transient Reactor Test (TREAT) Facility, which subjects nuclear fuel to accident conditions in a contained, controlled environment. TREAT aids scientists and engineers to continuously improve nuclear fuel performance and safety. As with ATR, TREAT is a one-of-kind reactor with capabilities that cannot be matched anywhere else in the world.

Next, we will stop at the Hot Fuel Examination Facility (HFEF), which contains the largest inert hot cell in the world. Hot cells are shielded, contained facilities that allow staff to remotely disassemble and examine radioactive experiments from ATR, TREAT or any other facility. The walls and windows are four feet thick and give workers full radiation protection to safely handle materials inside the cell using manipulator arms – arms like robots that offer “hands-on” handling of radioactive material remotely.

We will also learn how MFC and INL support NASA by assembling, testing and certifying radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs), the power systems that provide heat and electricity for NASA missions. Since this system was relocated to INL, MFC has assembled and delivered the RTGs for the Pluto-New Horizons mission as well as the Mars rovers, Curiosity and Perseverance.

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Research and Education Campus

The Research and Education Campus (REC) includes all the facilities in Idaho Falls. A few stops of interest surround the cybersecurity research we do at INL, including the new Cybercore Integration Center and the Collaborative Computing Center. We will also take you through the Energy Systems Laboratory (ESL).

Research at ESL includes a battery testing laboratory focused mainly on hybrid and electric vehicle batteries, a microgrid that includes solar panels, flow batteries, and real-time wind data from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado. This laboratory space is dedicated to understanding the impacts of electric vehicle charging on the grid and how to standardize charging platforms, and real-time digital simulators to combine all of the inputs, and withdrawals, from the power grid. INL is adding to these capabilities to replicate the electrical and heating inputs of either microreactors or small modular reactors to study and understand other applications for nuclear, including hydrogen production, water desalination or process heat for industrial applications. The Biomass Feedstock National User Facility at ESL is a reconfigurable space to optimize harvesting, pretreating, transporting and storing various biomass products for the nation in a cost-effective and environmentally sound manner.

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Virtual Self-Guided Tours

TravelStorys Tours

There is also an  on-demand tour of INL and EBR-I  through TravelStorys.

Download the app on your mobile device or access it through your computer  here.   The tour is divided into two portions – a narrated highway tour of historical and current INL facilities that can be seen from the highway – and a narrated tour through EBR-I.

When EBR-I is once again open, visitors can use the app for a “guided tour” through the building.

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Step into an operating test reactor, explore the world’s largest inert hot cell or visit INL’s biomass lab all from your connected device.

Virtual Field Trip: Nuclear Reimagined

Take a journey inside Idaho National Laboratory, the nation’s lead lab for nuclear energy research, development, demonstration and deployment. Here, scientists and engineers create fuel particles to enhance space exploration, research and improve energy production, and design the next generation of nuclear technology and equipment.

Advanced Test Reactor Tour

The Advanced Test Reactor at Idaho National Laboratory is the foremost nuclear materials test reactor in the world. This virtual tour describes the reactor, how experiments are conducted, and how spent nuclear fuel is handled and stored.

Materials and Fuels Complex Tour

The Materials and Fuels Complex at Idaho National Laboratory is home to several facilities used for the research and development of nuclear fuels.

For the full list of INL virtual tours, visit:  https://inl.gov/360-tour-map/

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Want to visit LIGO, Livingston Louisiana, one of only 3 gravitational wave interferometers to ever directly detect gravitational waves?

C ome on our Science Saturdays , on the first Saturday of each month. You can just drop in on Science Saturdays.  During Science Saturdays we offer tours as well as time to explore in our professionally curated exhibit hall that has around 50 interactive science exhibits. If however you have a rather large group (15 or more), then we ask that you fill out a community group tour request form .  We offer different experiences for different groups whether you're a traditional school group, a home school, a community organization (scouts, church group, or other interest group), or just an interested member of the public.

Why Go to LIGO?

To talk to a Scientist

To tour a Cutting Edge Research Laboratory

To experiment with the hands-on interactive science exhibits

To be INSPIRED by SCIENCE

Unfortunately we are very sensitive to vibrations, so prior to visiting you must first request a tour UNLESS you are coming on one of our Science Saturdays which occur the first Saturday of every month from 10 AM - 4 PM.

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Visiting NOAA Boulder

Security procedures.

Visitors are required to sign in and receive a visitor badge. Park next to the Visitors Center and enter. Security personnel will make a badge and conduct screening.

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  • All IDs must be originals only – no photocopies accepted.
  • Security personnel will conduct a vehicle inspection prior to entrance of the site.
  • These are our requirements as per Homeland Security regardless of security threat level. If you have any questions, please contact Richard Kelsey , Boulder Regional Security Officer, 303-497-5236.

Tour Information

We appreciate your interest in NOAA and in visiting the David Skaggs Research Center in Boulder, CO.

Updated information regarding tours is available on the NOAA Boulder website.

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Reservations are required for the weekly public tour offered each Tuesday at 1pm . All tours are free to the public.

Tour comments and questions will be answered only by email: noaa.dsrc.tours@noaa.gov

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  • For all school groups , including K-12 and universities, please email: noaa.dsrc.tours@noaa.gov
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Directions to NOAA Boulder

NOAA ESRL is located in the David Skaggs Research Center (DSRC) at 325 Broadway, in Boulder, Colorado, next to the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) building. Downloadable Map with Directions

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Driving from DIA

  • Exit Denver International Airport via Peña Boulevard.
  • Take Peña Boulevard to I-70 West.
  • Split right on I-270 North (Exit 279), toward Ft. Collins and follow across I-25 to US-36 toward Boulder.
  • Take US-36 (Boulder Turnpike) West.
  • Exit US-36 at Baseline Road (University of Colorado Main Campus exit).
  • Keep left and turn left (West) onto Baseline.
  • Keep left and turn left at the first light onto 27th Way.
  • Stay in the middle lane and turn left onto Broadway.
  • Take the second right at the light onto Rayleigh Rd. and bear right into the Visitors Center parking lot.

Toll Road Option:

  • Exit Peña Boulevard at E-470 and follow to US-36. Current toll information can be found at: www.expresstoll.com .

Taking the Bus

  • The AB bus provides service between Boulder and the Denver International Airport.
  • The FF buses provide regional service between Denver and Boulder from the Broadway & Baseline and Broadway & Dartmouth stops.
  • Broadway & Rayleigh Road is the closest stop to the Visitors Center and is also served by the Skip and Dash local bus routes.

Airport Shuttle

  • Green Ride provides service from the airport to locations in Boulder.

Local Information

  • Visit the Boulder Convention and Visitors Bureau for information about hotels, restaurants and more!
  • Please check the National Weather Service forecast for Boulder, Colorado before your trip. If there is a chance that severe weather may close the campus, check the Boulder Labs Site Status website or call 303-497-4000.

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Realizing the benefits of human genetics and genomics research for people everywhere.

Hosting Lab Tours, a Step-By-Step Process

By Arvind Kothandaraman, member of the Public Education & Awareness Committee

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Do you remember the first time you entered a genetics lab? It may have sparked your curiosity, raised questions, or even inspired you to pursue a career in human genetics research. While it is common for some ASHG members to spend time in the place where findings are made and breakthroughs occur, many outside the genetic community never see the inside of a science lab – the closest they get to a lab may be reading about new discoveries or seeing a scientist in a movie hold up a test tube as they peer through goggles. By hosting lab tours, relationships are created with local communities and understanding of science becomes more accessible. Public Education & Awareness Committee member Arvind Kothandaraman has hosted many tours through his career. He spoke with ASHG to create a guide to host a lab tour.

Getting Started

Hosting a lab tour may be something you’re interested in pursuing, but what’s the first step? Start by reaching out to your own contacts or local schools. Many school websites provide contact information for teachers, department heads, or general administrators. Once a connection is made with even one person, a network is created. Similarly, evaluate your own network. Perhaps your child’s teacher is interested in setting up a tour. Trust and reliability are key to establishing a long-lasting outreach relationship – offering yourself as a resource to supplement someone’s learning sets the foundation for these key components.

With either a new or existing contact, include all information that could help their decision of whether to set up a tour. Some considerations include:

  • Tour itinerary and duration
  • Any hands-on aspects the group will be able to participate in
  • People that the group may have the opportunity to meet while on the tour
  • Take-home resources
  • Your willingness to provide additional resources, such as classroom activities or time to set up discussions about career or higher education advice if students are interested in pursuing this further

Considerations and Collaborations

Each lab is different, as are your capabilities as a host. Perhaps certain times of the year allow you more opportunities to host. October may be a difficult month to host due to the ASHG Annual Meeting ! When evaluating how you will conduct your tour, consider the groups you feel would be most capable of hosting in your lab. Do you have experience working with high school students but not elementary school students? Or do you want to host a tour with people who have various expertise? This may be an opportunity to collaborate with a colleague or another ASHG member. The GENE Network provides you with a network of ASHG members looking to connect with the education and engagement community. This includes fellow members looking to expand their engagement network. Search by location, audience level, and area of interest to find a fellow ASHG member with whom you can collaborate.

Keeping the Group Focused

As with any group setting, it is important to have strategies on hand to keep everyone focused. Keeping everyone thinking, engaged, and curious leads to an enjoyable experience for all. Assigning deliverables to students helps them focus during the tour. Have a few research questions in mind that you are grappling with. Share these questions with students ahead of or during the tour and brainstorm ways to answer the question. Eye opening suggestions can come from unexpected angles!

Post-Tour Activities

Turn a tour into a larger project. Once your time with a group has concluded, encourage them to create group artwork or even a simple list that captures what they took away from the tour. This could revolve around the lab’s set up, people, or other notable things. Not only does this help students retain information, but it can also be a gift for the host – a seemingly simple gesture can turn out to be a prized possession to the receiver.

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The Sinnhuber Aquatic Research Laboratory (SARL) is the world’s largest zebrafish aquatic toxicology facility. This laboratory is a unique facility equipped to conduct biomedical research using zebrafish. It is a 17,000 square foot self-contained fish hatchery for rearing fish. It remains the only known certified SPF zebrafish facility and has a low maintenance system with >40,000 fish and >20 transgenic zebrafish lines. Animals spawn daily, producing tens of thousands of high-quality eggs/day. The facility also supports transgenic studies, CRISPR/Cas9 line development, morpholino injections, dietary studies and is equipped for chemical assessments.

SARL is an off-campus research facility located 2.9 miles from Oregon State University.

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Oregon State University is AAALAC accredited. All animals are under approved Animal Care and Use Protocols as required by the institutional IACUC.  Animals are housed at the SARL in commercial holding rack units to house adult and larval fish. SARL is home to one of the largest zebrafish toxicology research facilities globally and the only one in the world that is Specific Pathogen Free for Pseudoloma neurophilia, providing confidence in the health of the animals used in these studies. Current animal capacity consists of over 4,000 X 1-6 liter tanks. In addition, we have developed novel 100 and 35-gallon mass egg production tanks. These tanks result in significantly reduced labor costs and unprecedented capacity to produce zebrafish eggs daily. Average daily production exceeds 40,000 eggs. We have developed and obtained several transgenic and mutant zebrafish lines that are available for research. Finally, we also have in-house capabilities to generate mutant fish using zinc finger nucleases, TALENs, and CRISPR Cas-9 methods

Take a tour of the fish room by clicking anywhere on the screen. Hold and drag your cursor to look around the space and click on the arrows to move through the rooms. Click on the + symbol to see more photographs, watch short videos, or listen to brief audio clips.

Why zebrafish?

  • Zebrafish embryos develop externally, outside the mother. The embryos are transparent, and non-invasive microscopy techniques can resolve individual cells in vivo across many developmental stages. We can monitor the development of organs and the impact of chemical exposure in live animals in real time.
  • The molecular responses of zebrafish to chemicals have a high degree of relevance to human biology. The signal transduction mechanisms, anatomy, and physiology of zebrafish are homologous to those of humans. Zebrafish possess all the classical sense modalities, including vision, olfaction, taste, touch, balance, and hearing. 
  • We can generate virtually unlimited numbers of zebrafish embryos. More than 30,000 zebrafish reside at OSU’s Sinnhuber Aquatic Research Laboratory (SARL), and each female produces hundreds of eggs weekly.
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Superconductivity scandal: the inside story of deception in a rising star’s physics lab

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Ranga Dias and his team at the University of Rochester compressed materials in a device called a diamond anvil cell to explore superconductivity. Credit: Lauren Petracca/ New York Times /Redux/eyevine

In 2020, Ranga Dias was an up-and-coming star of the physics world. A researcher at the University of Rochester in New York, Dias achieved widespread recognition for his claim to have discovered the first room-temperature superconductor , a material that conducts electricity without resistance at ambient temperatures. Dias published that finding in a landmark Nature paper 1 .

Nearly two years later, that paper was retracted . But not long after, Dias announced an even bigger result, also published in Nature : another room-temperature superconductor 2 . Unlike the previous material, the latest one supposedly worked at relatively modest pressures, raising the enticing possibility of applications such as superconducting magnets for medical imaging and powerful computer chips.

Most superconductors operate at extremely low temperatures, below 77 kelvin (−196 °C). So achieving superconductivity at room temperature (about 293 K, or 20 °C) would be a “remarkable phenomenon”, says Peter Armitage, a condensed-matter researcher at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

But Dias is now infamous for the scandal that surrounds his work. Nature has since retracted his second paper 2 and many other research groups have tried and failed to replicate Dias’s superconductivity results. Some researchers say the debacle has caused serious harm. The scandal “has damaged careers of young scientists — either in the field, or thinking to go into the field”, says Paul Canfield, a physicist at Iowa State University in Ames.

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Previous reporting by The Wall Street Journal , Science and Nature ’s news team has documented allegations that Dias manipulated data, plagiarized substantial portions of his thesis and attempted to obstruct the investigation of another paper by fabricating data.

Three previous investigations into Dias’s superconductivity work by the University of Rochester did not find evidence of misconduct. But last summer, the university launched a fourth investigation, led by experts external to the university. In August 2023, Dias was stripped of his students and laboratories. That fourth investigation is now complete and, according to a university spokesperson, the external experts confirmed that there were “data reliability concerns” in Dias’s papers.

Now, Nature ’s news team reveals new details about how the scandal unfolded.

The news team interviewed several of Dias’s former graduate students, who were co-authors of his superconductivity research. The individuals requested anonymity because they were concerned about the negative impact on their careers. Nature ’s news team verified student claims with corroborating documents; where it could not do so, the news team relied on the fact that multiple, independent student accounts were in agreement.

The news team also obtained documents relevant to the acceptance of the two Nature papers and their subsequent retractions. ( Nature ’s news and journal teams are editorially independent.)

The investigation unearths fresh details about how Dias distorted the evidence for room-temperature superconductivity — and indicates that he concealed information from his students, manipulated them and shut them out of key steps in the research process. The investigation also reveals, for the first time, what happened during the peer-review process for Dias’s second Nature paper on superconductivity. Dias did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Together, the evidence raises questions about why the problems in Dias’s lab did not prompt stronger action, and sooner, by his collaborators, by Nature ’s journal team and by his university.

Zero resistance

Dias came to the University of Rochester in 2017, fresh from a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he worked under physicist Isaac Silvera. “He’s not only a very talented scientist, but he’s an honest person,” Silvera told Nature ’s news team.

Once Dias settled at Rochester, he pursued high-temperature superconductivity. Three years earlier, the field had been electrified when researchers in Germany discovered superconductivity in a form of hydrogen sulfide with the formula H 3 S at 203 K (−70 °C) and at extremely high pressures 3 . This was a much higher temperature than any superconductor had achieved before, which gave researchers hope that room-temperature superconductivity could be around the corner.

Dias proposed that adding carbon to H 3 S might lead to superconductivity at even higher temperatures.

Ranga Dias, a professor of mechanical engineering and physics at University of Rochester whose team is doing superconductivity research, in 2023.

Ranga Dias at the University of Rochester, New York. Credit: Lauren Petracca/ New York Times /Redux/eyevine

His former graduate students say they synthesized samples of carbon, sulfur and hydrogen (CSH), but did not take measurements of electrical resistance or magnetic susceptibility that showed superconductivity. When a superconducting material is cooled past a critical temperature, its electrical resistance drops sharply to zero, and the material displays a similarly sharp change in its magnetic properties, called the Meissner effect. Students say they did not observe these key signs of superconductivity in CSH.

Because of this, students say they were shocked when Dias sent them a manuscript on 21 July 2020 announcing the discovery of room-temperature superconductivity in CSH. E-mails seen by the news team show that the students had little time to review the manuscript: Dias sent out a draft at 5.13 p.m. and submitted the paper to Nature at 8.26 p.m. the same evening.

When the students asked Dias about the stunning new data, they say, he told them he had taken all the resistance and magnetic-susceptibility data before coming to Rochester. The news team obtained e-mails that show Dias had been making similar claims since 2014. In the e-mails, Dias says he has observed a sulfur-based superconductor with a temperature above 120 K — which is relatively high, but far from room temperature. The students recall that they felt odd about Dias’s explanation but did not suspect misconduct at the time. As relatively inexperienced graduate students, they say, they trusted their adviser.

During peer review, however, Dias’s claims about CSH met more resistance. Nature ’s news team obtained the reports of all three referees who reviewed the manuscript. Two of the referees were concerned over a lack of information about the chemical structure of CSH. After three rounds of review, only one referee supported publication.

The news team showed five superconductivity specialists these reports. They shared some of the referees’ concerns but say it was not unreasonable for the Nature editors to have accepted the paper, given the strongly positive report from one referee and what was known at the time.

The paper was published on 14 October 2020 to fanfare. Dias and a co-author, Ashkan Salamat, a physicist at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), also announced their new venture: Unearthly Materials, a Rochester-based company established to develop superconductors that operate at ambient temperatures and pressures.

At the time, students say, they trusted Dias’s explanations of where the resistance and magnetic-susceptibility data came from. Now, however, they no longer believe the result, or Dias’s explanation for the data. “I don’t think any of the other data was collected,” one student says.

Matters arise

Soon after the CSH paper was published, Jorge Hirsch, a condensed-matter theorist at the University of California, San Diego, began pressing Dias to release the raw magnetic-susceptibility data, which were not included in the paper. More than a year later, Dias and Salamat finally made the raw data public.

In January 2022, Hirsch and Dirk van der Marel, a retired professor at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, posted an analysis of the raw data on the preprint server arXiv 4 . They reported that the data points were separated by suspiciously regular intervals — each exactly a multiple of 0.16555 nanovolts. Hirsch and van der Marel stated that this feature was evidence of data manipulation.

Laser spectroscopy is used to trigger chemical reactions in experiments with room-temperature superconductivity in a University of Rochester lab.

Dias’s team used laser spectroscopy to measure the pressure of samples in diamond anvil cells. Credit: Lauren Petracca/ New York Times /Redux/eyevine

Dias and Salamat responded in an arXiv preprint, arguing that the voltage intervals were simply a result of a background subtraction 5 (the preprint was subsequently withdrawn by arXiv administrators). In high-pressure experiments, the signal of a sample’s superconductivity — a drop in voltage — can be drowned out by background noise. Researchers sometimes subtract this background, but the CSH paper did not mention the technique.

Questions about the data prompted Nature ’s journal team to look further. In response to the concerns from Hirsch and van der Marel, editors at Nature asked four new referees to participate in a post-publication review of the CSH paper, which, like most peer review, was confidential.

Now, Nature ’s news team has obtained the reports, which show that two of the anonymous referees found no evidence of misconduct. But two other reviewers, whom the news team can identify as physicists Brad Ramshaw at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and James Hamlin at the University of Florida in Gainesville, found serious problems with the paper.

In particular, Hamlin found evidence that led him to conclude the raw data had been altered. Nature applied an editor’s note to the CSH paper on 15 February 2022, alerting readers to concerns about the data.

On 4 March 2022, Dias and Salamat sent a rebuttal to the referees, denying data manipulation. But the rebuttal, seen by the news team, does not provide an explanation for the issues that Hamlin and Ramshaw found in the raw magnetic-susceptibility data. “I don’t know of any reasonable way this could come about,” Ramshaw wrote in a 13 March e-mail to Nature ’s manuscript team in response to the rebuttal. “The simplest conclusion would be that these data sets are all generated by hand and not actually measured.”

On 27 March 2022, Hamlin sent Nature ’s journal team his response to the rebuttal, which proposed an explanation for the odd data: rather than deriving the published data from raw data, Dias had added noise to the published data to generate a set of ‘raw’ data.

To assess the evidence for data fabrication, Nature ’s news team last month asked two superconductivity specialists to review the post-publication reports. They said that Hamlin’s analysis gives credence to claims of misconduct.

In July 2022, using a different analysis, van der Marel and Hirsch independently came to the same conclusion and posted their findings on arXiv as an update to their original preprint. In it, they state that the raw data must have been constructed from the published data 6 .

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In light of these concerns, Nature started the process of retracting the CSH paper. On 11 August, Nature editors sent an e-mail to all the co-authors asking them whether they agreed to the retraction. Students who spoke to the news team say that they were surprised by this, because Dias had kept them out of the loop about the post-publication review process. They remained unaware of any of the referees’ findings, including that there was evidence for data fabrication.

Nature retracted the CSH paper on 26 September 2022, with a notice that states “issues undermine confidence in the published magnetic susceptibility data as a whole, and we are accordingly retracting the paper”. Karl Ziemelis, Nature’ s chief applied and physical sciences editor, says the journal’s investigation ceased as soon as the editors lost confidence in the paper, which “did leave other technical concerns unresolved”.

The retraction does not state what Hamlin and Ramshaw found in the post-publication review process instigated by Nature : that the raw data were probably fabricated. Felicitas Heßelmann, a specialist in retractions at the Humboldt University of Berlin, says misconduct is difficult to prove, so journals often avoid laying blame on authors in retractions. “A lot of retractions use very vague language,” she says.

Publicly, Dias continued to insist that CSH was legitimate and that the retraction was simply down to an obscure technical disagreement.

As Nature journal editors were investigating the CSH paper, the University of Rochester conducted two investigations into Dias’s work; a separate one followed the retraction. One of the university’s inquiries was in response to an anonymous report, which included some of the evidence indicating possible data fabrication that surfaced during Nature ’s post-publication review.

The university told Nature ’s news team that the three investigations regarding the CSH study did not find evidence of misconduct.

A spokesperson for Nature says that the journal took the university’s conclusions into account during its deliberations, but still decided to retract the paper.

The lack of industry-wide standards for investigating misconduct leaves it unclear whether the responsibility to investigate lands more on journals or on institutions. Ziemelis says: “Allegations of possible misconduct are outside the remit of peer review and more appropriately investigated by the host institution.”

Heßelmann says the responsibility to investigate can “vary from case to case”, but that there is a trend of more journals investigating misconduct, regardless of institutional action.

Funding agencies can also investigate alleged misconduct. In this case, Dias has received funding from both the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DoE). The DoE did not respond to questions from Nature ’s news team about Dias’s grant. The NSF declined to say whether it is investigating Dias, but it noted that awards can be terminated and suspended in response to an investigation.

The students who spoke to Nature ’s news team say that none of them were interviewed in the three investigations of the CSH work by the university, which they were not aware of at the time. “We were hoping someone would come talk to us,” one student says. “It never happened.”

A new claim

By the time the CSH paper came under scrutiny by Nature journal editors in early 2022, Dias’s graduate students were starting to grow concerned. In summer 2021, Dias had tasked them with investigating a compound of lutetium and hydrogen (LuH), which he thought might be a high-temperature superconductor.

They began testing commercially purchased samples of LuH and, before long, a student measured the resistance dropping to zero at a temperature of around 300 K (27 °C). Dias concluded the material was a room-temperature superconductor, even though there was extremely little evidence, several students told Nature . “Ranga was convinced,” one student says.

Physicist James Jeffrey Hamlin in his lab at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida in 2023.

Physicist James Hamlin raised concerns about data reported by the Rochester group. Credit: Zach Stovall for Nature

But the measurements were plagued by systematic errors, which students say they shared with Dias. “I was very, very concerned that one of the probes touching the sample was broken,” one student says. “We could be measuring something that looks like a superconducting drop, but be fooling ourselves.” Although students did see resistance drops in a few other samples, there was no consistency across samples, or even for repeated measurements of a single sample, they told Nature ’s news team.

Students were also worried about the accuracy of other measurements. During elemental analysis of a sample, they detected trace amounts of nitrogen. Dias concluded that the samples included the element — and the resulting paper refers to nitrogen-doped lutetium hydride. But further analysis, performed after the paper was submitted, indicated that nitrogen was not incorporated into the LuH. “Ranga ignored what I was saying,” one student says.

Because they were not consulted on the CSH paper, the students say they wanted to make sure they were included in the process of writing the LuH paper. According to the students, Dias initially agreed to involve them. “Then, one day, he sends us an e-mail and says, ‘Here’s the paper. I’m gonna submit it,’” one student says.

E-mails seen by Nature ’s news team corroborate the timeline. Dias sent out the first draft of the LuH paper in an e-mail at 2.09 a.m. on 25 April 2022. “Please send me your comments by 10.30 AM,” Dias wrote. “I am submitting it today.” The manuscript they received did not contain any figures, making it difficult to assess. The students convinced Dias to hold off on submitting until the next day, when they could discuss it in person.

One student was upset enough by the meeting that they wrote a memorandum of the events four days afterwards. The memo gives details of how students raised concerns and Dias dismissed them. Students worried that the draft was misleading, because it included a description of how to synthesize LuH; in reality, all the measurements were taken on commercially bought samples of LuH. “Ranga responded by pointing out that it was never explicitly mentioned that we synthesized the sample so technically he was not lying,” the student wrote.

The students say they also raised concerns about the pressure data reported in the draft. “None of those pressure points correspond to anything that we actually measured,” one student says. According to the memo, Dias dismissed their concerns by saying: “Pressure is a joke.”

Students say that Dias gave them an ultimatum: remove their names, or let him send the draft. Despite their worries, the students say they had no choice but to acquiesce. “I just remember being very intimidated,” one student says. The student says they regret not speaking up more to Dias. “But it’s scary at the time. What if I do and he makes the rest of my life miserable?”

Dias made some changes that the students requested, but ignored others; the submitted manuscript contained a description of a synthesis procedure that had not been used. He sent the LuH manuscript to Nature that evening.

Paper problems

After Nature published the LuH paper in March 2023, many scientists were critical of the journal’s decision, given the rumours of misconduct surrounding the retracted CSH paper. They wanted to know on what basis Nature had decided to accept it. (In the case of both papers, neither the peer-review reports nor the referees’ identities were revealed .) Nature ’s news team obtained those reviews and can, for the first time, reveal what happened during the review process for the LuH paper. Nature editors received the manuscript in April 2022 (about a month after Nature received the CSH post-publication review reports) and sent it out to four referees.

Brad Ramshaw giving a talk while using a projector.

Physicist Brad Ramshaw, together with James Hamlin, investigated data questions surrounding Dias’s superconductivity research. Credit: Kim Modic

All four referees agreed that the findings, if true, were highly significant. But they emphasized caution in accepting the manuscript, because of the extraordinary nature of the claims. Referee 4 wrote that the journal should be careful with such extraordinary claims to avoid another “Schön affair”, referring to the extensive data fabrication by German physicist Jan Hendrik Schön, which has become a cautionary tale in physics and led to dozens of papers being retracted, seven of them in Nature . Referees 2 and 3 also expressed concern about the results because of the CSH paper, which at the time bore an editor’s note of concern but had not yet been retracted. Referees raised a plethora of issues, from a lack of details about the synthesis procedure to unexplainable features in the data.

Although Dias and Salamat managed to assuage some of those concerns, referees said the authors’ responses were “not satisfactory” and the manuscript went through five stages of review. In the end, only one referee said there was solid proof of superconductivity, and another gave qualified support for publication. The other two referees did not voice support for publication, and one of them remained unsatisfied with the authors’ responses and wanted more measurements taken.

The news team asked five superconductivity specialists to review key information available to Nature journal editors when they were considering the LuH manuscript: the referee reports for the LuH paper and the reports indicating data fabrication in the CSH paper. All five said the documents raised serious questions about the validity of the LuH results and the integrity of the data.

“The second paper — from my understanding of timelines — was being considered after the Nature editors and a lot of the condensed-matter community were aware there were profound problems” with the CSH paper, Canfield says. The specialists also pointed to negative comments from some of the LuH referees, such as the observation by Referee 1 that “raw data does not look like a feature corresponding to superconducting transition”.

When asked why Nature considered Dias’s LuH paper after being warned of potential misconduct on the previous paper, Magdalena Skipper, Nature ’s editor-in-chief, said: “Our editorial policy considers every submission in its own right.” The rationale, Skipper explains, is that decisions should be made on the basis of the scientific quality, not who the authors are.

Many other journals have similar policies, and guidelines from the Committee on Publication Ethics state that peer reviewers should “not allow their reviews to be influenced by the origins of a manuscript”. But not all journals say they treat submissions independently. Van der Marel, who is the editor-in-chief of Physica C , says that he would consider past allegations of misconduct if he were assessing a new paper by the same author. “If you have good reasons to doubt the credibility of authors, you are not obliged to publish,” he says.

Under review

Soon after the LuH paper was published in March 2023, it came under further scrutiny. Several teams of researchers independently attempted to replicate the results. One group, using samples from Dias’s lab, reported electrical resistance measurements that it said indicated high-temperature superconductivity 7 . But numerous other replication attempts found no evidence of room-temperature superconductivity in the compound .

As previously reported in Science , Hamlin and Ramshaw sent Nature a formal letter of concern in May. Dias and Salamat responded to the issues later that month, but the students say they were not included in the response, and learnt about the concerns much later.

A recording of a 6 July 2023 meeting between Dias and his students, obtained by Nature ’s news team, shows that Dias continued to manipulate the students. Throughout the hour-long meeting, Dias said he wanted to involve the students in deciding how the team would respond to concerns about the LuH paper. But he didn’t tell them that he and Salamat had already responded to the technical issues raised by Hamlin and Ramshaw.

A graduate student makes adjustments to a diamond anvil cell used for a superconductivity experiment in the University of Rochester lab.

One of Dias’s students adjusts a diamond anvil cell, which the team used in its experiments. Credit: Lauren Petracca/ New York Times /Redux/eyevine

The recording also reveals how Dias tried to manipulate the Nature review, because he believed the process would turn against him once more. “We can pretend we’re going to cooperate and buy time for a month or so, and then gather some senior scientists from the community,” Dias says in the recording. Dias explains how he wants to use the credibility of senior scientists — or the University of Rochester — to pressure Nature and avert a retraction.

But Dias’s plans were thwarted. Later that month, the students received an e-mail from Nature ’s editors that showed Dias and Salamat had, in fact, already responded to the concerns. The students realized that Dias had sent them a document with the dates removed, apparently to perpetuate the falsehood.

On 25 July 2023, the journal initiated a post-publication review and asked four new referees to assess the dispute. All of the referees agreed that there were serious problems with the data, and that Dias and Salamat did not “convincingly address” the issues raised by Hamlin and Ramshaw. A spokesperson for Nature says the journal communicated with University of Rochester representatives during the post-publication review.

Separately, Dias’s students were beginning to mobilize, re-examining the LuH data they were able to access. The students hadn’t done this before, because, they say, Dias produced almost all of the figures and plots in both of the Nature papers.

Several other researchers told the news team that the principal investigator does not typically produce all the plots. “That’s weird,” Canfield says.

The students say they were especially concerned about the magnetic susceptibility measurements — again, the raw data seemed to have been altered. Looking at the real raw data, one student says, the material does not look like a superconductor. But when Dias subtracted the background, the student says, that “basically flips that curve upside down and makes it look superconducting instead”.

They continued finding problems. For the resistance measurements, too, the alleged raw data didn’t match data actually taken in the lab. Instead, it had been tweaked to look neater. “Science can be really messy … some of these plots just look too good,” a student says.

Back to school

By this point, some students were deeply concerned about their careers. “My thesis is going to be full of fabricated data. How am I supposed to graduate in this lab?” one student says. “At that point, I was thinking of either taking a leave of absence, or of dropping out.”

During the summer, Dias began facing other issues. One of his papers in Physical Review Letters 8 — unrelated to room-temperature superconductivity — was being retracted after the journal found convincing evidence of data fabrication. Around the same time, Dias was stripped of his students and the University of Rochester launched a fourth investigation — this time, the students say they were interviewed.

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‘A very disturbing picture’: another retraction imminent for controversial physicist

In late August, the students decided to request a retraction of the LuH paper and compiled their concerns about the data and Dias’s behaviour. Before they sent a letter to Nature , Dias apparently caught wind of it and sent the students a cease-and-desist notice, which the news team has seen. But, after consulting a university official who gave them the green light, the students sent their letter to Nature editors, precipitating the retraction process. Eight out of 11 authors, including Salamat, signed the letter and the LuH paper was retracted two months later, on 7 November .

According to multiple sources familiar with the company, Salamat left Unearthly Materials in 2023 and is under investigation at UNLV. He did not respond to multiple requests for comment, and a spokesperson for UNLV declined to comment publicly on personnel issues.

The scandal has also had an impact on Nature ’s journal team. “This has been a deeply frustrating situation, and we understand the strength of feelings this has stirred within the community,” Ziemelis says. “We are looking at this case carefully to see what lessons can be learnt for the future.”

With the university’s investigation now complete, Dias remains at Rochester while a separate process for addressing “personnel actions” proceeds. He has no students, is not teaching any classes and has lost access to his lab, according to multiple sources. Dias’s prestigious NSF grant — which has US$333,283 left to pay out until 2026 — could also be in jeopardy if the NSF finds reason to terminate it.

Dias has not published any more papers about LuH, but on X (formerly Twitter), he occasionally posts updates about the material. In a 19 January tweet, Dias shared an image of data, which he said showed the Meissner effect — “definitive proof of superconductivity!”

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Touro research day 2024.

Join us this year as we honor advances in research across Touro University at this year’s Research Day, with the theme, “Resilience and Persistence.”

Every year, we showcase the remarkable progress made in research across our undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools, highlighting the outstanding achievements within our community. This year is no different, as we continue to push boundaries and break new ground.

  • Juried Poster Session: We invite you to participate in our juried poster session, accessible both before and during Research Day. Showcase your work, compete for prizes, and contribute to the scholarly exchange. For details on participation, prizes, and deadlines, please visit our Research Day website . Selected top posters will also be presented as part of the formal program lineup.
  • Innovation Forum: New to this year's event, we are thrilled to introduce the Innovation Forum. Leaders from our community will join us on-site to introduce their research programs, discuss opportunities for collaboration across schools, and explore avenues for innovation.

Keynote Speaker

Distinguished research speaker.

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  1. 360 Virtual Reality Laboratories

    Now you can visit a university research laboratory and a start-up biotechnology company. Each tour includes places that cover the science, instruments, and tools used in a laboratory. You can also learn about the people who work in these spaces. There are three ways to view each lab tour. You can use a computer and click and drag to look around.

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    At Fermilab, you can "go on the Lederman Science Center Exhibits virtual tour. Take one of the " 360 degree virtual tours of Fermilab and some of its experiments including Wilson Hall and some of its experiments like Muon g-2 experiment, Main Injector particle accelerator, NuMI/MINOS underground research area for neutrino experiments.".

  3. Tour the Lab

    Laboratory tours are free of charge, and are available by reservation only. Tours include an overview of the laboratory and visits to at least two research facilities: the Advanced Photon Source, ATLAS particle accelerator, and/or an exhibit hall telling the story of Argonne's past and present research in nuclear science and engineering. Tours are available for persons age 13 and older.

  4. Plan Your Trip

    The UCAR Center for Science Education's NSF NCAR Tour App provides the perfect opportunity to explore the NSF NCAR Mesa Lab Visitor Center at your own pace. The app works on all website browsers as well as on both Android and iOS devices. iPads are also available to check out from the Front Desk during weekdays between 8:00 am and 4:00 pm MT.

  5. Visit NSF NCAR

    The U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR) Mesa Lab sits nestled against the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Boulder, Colorado. NSF NCAR's Mesa Lab Visitor Center, open to the public seven days a week, offers state-of-the-art exhibits, a variety of public tour options, and custom school field trips, all at no charge.

  6. Hosting a Lab Tour? Here Are Some Planning Tips

    Research the representative's interests and legislative committees. Develop talking points and plan station stops or demonstrations. One Week Away. Send a detailed agenda to attendees with locations, times, and key people involved. Tour Structure. A well-constructed and thought-out lab tour will be well worth the effort. Consider these tips ...

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    1) Normal operations tours. If you're planning on conducting a tour through a research lab while research activities are ongoing, the following rules apply: Tour participants must wear all personal protective equipment deemed appropriate for the laboratory environment by the Principal Investigator's Laboratory Hazard Assessment.

  8. NIH Visitor Center, Nobel Laureate Exhibit Hall, and Tours

    It is a national resource that makes it possible to speed the translation of laboratory discoveries into new approaches for diagnosing, treating, and preventing disease. The 870,000-square-foot research center has 200 inpatient beds and more than 1,600 laboratories conducting basic and clinical research. Learn more facts about the Clinical Center.

  9. Explore NSF NCAR: Live Virtual Tour

    Explore NSF NCAR: Live Virtual Tour. The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Mesa Laboratory sits nestled against the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Boulder, CO. In addition to being an amazing architectural landmark designed by I.M. Pei, this world-class research laboratory focuses on an ...

  10. Virtual Lab Tours for Recruitment and Outreach

    Researchers who prefer a high-quality video production can seek professional help for their virtual lab tours. At Macquarie University in Sydney, scientific officers Prasanth Subramani and Ray Duell, whose duties include teaching and research support and lab maintenance and safety, first began developing virtual tours of new labs in the university's biological sciences department for ...

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    Take a journey inside Idaho National Laboratory, the nation's lead lab for nuclear energy research, development, demonstration and deployment. Here, scientists and engineers create fuel particles to enhance space exploration, research and improve energy production, and design the next generation of nuclear technology and equipment.

  12. For Public and Community

    To tour a Cutting Edge Research Laboratory. To experiment with the hands-on interactive science exhibits. To be INSPIRED by SCIENCE. Unfortunately we are very sensitive to vibrations, so prior to visiting you must first request a tour UNLESS you are coming on one of our Science Saturdays which occur the first Saturday of every month from 10 AM ...

  13. NOAA ESRL: Visiting

    We appreciate your interest in NOAA and in visiting the David Skaggs Research Center in Boulder, CO. Updated information regarding tours is available on the NOAA Boulder website. Reservations. Reservations are required for the weekly public tour offered each Tuesday at 1pm. All tours are free to the public.

  14. Hosting Lab Tours, a Step-By-Step Process

    By hosting lab tours, relationships are created with local communities and understanding of science becomes more accessible. Public Education & Awareness Committee member Arvind Kothandaraman has hosted many tours through his career. He spoke with ASHG to create a guide to host a lab tour.

  15. How to give a good lab tour?

    The goal of these lab tours is to leave the visitor (s) with the impression that we are doing interesting, important, and exciting research. The research that goes on in my lab mainly looks like... students sitting at laptop computers. We are a telecommunications lab. A lot of the experimental equipment we use is not actually housed in the lab ...

  16. Take a Tour

    Virtual Laboratory Tours. Step inside our state-of-the-art laboratories to learn more about our capabilities and the efficiencies of our integrated clinical research campus. In this interactive tour, we highlight our Central Laboratory, Bioanalytical Laboratory, and Biorepository located on the clinical research campus in Cincinnati, OH.

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    Take the 360° Tour through the Cerba Research Kit Building Line in Rijswijk. Get in touch with us today to find out how we can support your clinical research ambitions. Take a virtual lab tour of some of Cerba Research's key laboratories around the world, including ones in Ghent, New York, Montpellier and Taipei.

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    Senior NCOs visit the Army's research laboratory August 31, 2021 Turning thermal energy into electricity could help Soldiers August 30, 2021 Army science, technology leaders tour laboratory ...

  19. Sinnhuber Aquatic Research Laboratory Tour

    The Sinnhuber Aquatic Research Laboratory (SARL) is the world's largest zebrafish aquatic toxicology facility. This laboratory is a unique facility equipped to conduct biomedical research using zebrafish. It is a 17,000 square foot self-contained fish hatchery for rearing fish. It remains the only known certified SPF zebrafish facility and has a low maintenance system with >40,000 fish and ...

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    The lab tours run in parallel with the poster session (between the research talks and lunch). Each student spends one hour on lab tours and one hour at the poster/demo session; half do lab tours first, half do posters first. ... In talking to prospective lab tour leaders, emphasize that the students like to see equipment in action, or try out ...

  21. RESEARCH LAB TOUR: laboratory equipment function & names in my PhD lab

    Ever wondered what a research/PhD lab looks like? I'll give you a tour of my lab in this video! I explain the function of each instrument (and their fancy na...

  22. TFHRC Virtual Tour

    Welcome to the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC) virtual tour, which can be viewed on your mobile phone, laptop, or desktop computer with a high-speed internet connection. In this virtual tour you can explore some of our common areas and laboratories and learn about TFHRC history, current projects, and innovative equipment.

  23. PDF Preparing to Join a Lab: A Question Guide

    2 • What do you expect from a graduate student in your lab? • What do you see as your role as a thesis advisor? • Tell me about the students who have graduated from your lab: what did they work on, how long ago did they graduate, what degree did they receive (MD/Ph.D., Ph.D., or MS), and what they are doing now? • Will you tell me if I do something or behave in a way that is inappropriate?

  24. Superconductivity scandal: the inside story of deception in a rising

    Nature has since retracted his second paper 2 and many other research groups have tried and failed to replicate Dias's superconductivity results. Some researchers say the debacle has caused ...

  25. Touro Research Day 2024

    Juried Poster Session: We invite you to participate in our juried poster session, accessible both before and during Research Day. Showcase your work, compete for prizes, and contribute to the scholarly exchange. For details on participation, prizes, and deadlines, please visit our Research Day website. Selected top posters will also be ...