Texas A&M University is now home to what university officials are calling the world's largest academic-controlled explosions lab . The Detonation Research Test Facility, which opened last week, provides researchers with a site to engineer and conduct explosions to analyze subsequent detonations and their impacts.

After more than a day of scratching at his protruding brain implant until it bled, Kenny, a research macaque who lives inside a York University lab, reportedly pulled out the implant from his right ear,

The Searle Biodiesel Lab makes 8,000 gallons a year of cleaner-burning fuel from waste oil sourced from Loyola’s dining halls, the Art Institute of Chicago, Shedd Aquarium and elsewhere.