{"id":28530,"date":"2016-07-31T19:17:24","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T02:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/lab-2-0-will-computers-replace-experimental-science"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:01:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:01:59","slug":"lab-2-0-will-computers-replace-experimental-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/lab-2-0-will-computers-replace-experimental-science","title":{"rendered":"Lab 2.0: Will Computers Replace Experimental Science?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LGkkyKZVzug?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We spend our lives surrounded by hi-tech materials and chemicals that make our batteries, solar cells and mobile phones work. But developing new technologies requires time-consuming, expensive and even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chemistry.auckland.ac.nz\/en\/for\/current-students\/cs-health-and-safety\/examples-of-real-incidents.html\">dangerous<\/a> experiments.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily we now have a secret weapon that allows us to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2011\/06\/24\/materials-genome-initiative-renaissance-american-manufacturing\">save time, money and risk<\/a> by avoiding some of these experiments: computers.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www-ssl.intel.com\/content\/www\/us\/en\/silicon-innovations\/moores-law-technology.html\">Moore\u2019s law<\/a> and a number of developments in physics, chemistry, computer science and mathematics over the past 50 years (leading to Nobel Prizes in Chemistry in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/chemistry\/laureates\/1998\/\">1998<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/chemistry\/laureates\/2013\/\">2013<\/a>) we can now carry out many experiments entirely on computers using modelling.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/acsh.org\/news\/2016\/07\/31\/lab-2-0-will-computers-replace-experimental-science\/\">http:\/\/acsh.org\/news\/2016\/07\/31\/lab-2&#45;0-will-computers-r...l-science\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spend our lives surrounded by hi-tech materials and chemicals that make our batteries, solar cells and mobile phones work. But developing new technologies requires time-consuming, expensive and even dangerous experiments. Luckily we now have a secret weapon that allows us to save time, money and risk by avoiding some of these experiments: computers. Thanks [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523,1512,219,224,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones","category-physics","category-science","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60961,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28530\/revisions\/60961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}