Covid triggers remote-experiment revolution at labs across Europe

Institutions have introduced four-day weeks during lockdowns, but scholars suspect most changes will be temporary

20 January

Advocates for virtual labs finding chance to show cost and equity benefits of online experimentation

24 August

Research losses could be small but wider national epidemic control measures may prove a ‘once-in-a-century evidence fiasco’, according to experts

23 March

As labs shut, researchers in Milan fear losing months of work – and urge colleagues abroad to prepare now for similar restrictions

17 March

With scientists forced to work from home, many now conduct experiments from a distance, and the continent’s biggest research facilities think this change is here to stay