The deep green door of Agnes Schnani’s lab opens into a cozy room with warm lighting and soft orchestral music playing over the speakers she has installed in each corner of the ceiling.......

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A nondescript white door marked simply with “ASH” in plain black lettering leads to a sparsely furnished laboratory. Although Ash Roskar has turned down many offers to help spruce up the place a......

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Everything has a place in C. Roote’s lab, and he keeps it very clean. Neat stacks of papers and data chips rest on the counter beside a microscope and other lab equipment that gleam from polishing.......

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Bright gold letters mark Coral M. Mui’s vibrant orange lab door. The lab itself is a paradise of mechanical parts strewn across the counter, neatly labeled experiments under observation, and many......

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Some of the cupboard doors in Erin Pontifis’s lab have been removed, allowing the contents—colorful figurines of various sizes and forms—to be permanently visible. Other cupboards are filled......

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A faint chemical smell always lingers in the hall outside Finni Mortis’s lab. His fascination with long-dead things is evident to anyone who enters the dimly lit room—every available surface,......

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The soft sound of rippling water greets any visitors to Iris Evada’s lab. Against one wall is an artificial, aboveground pond complete with a small waterfall that hums to the irregular tune of......

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A row of palm-sized rocks gathered on expeditions lines the back of Joyce’s counter. She knows where each one came from, what its composition is, and who found it—most of them are from her own......

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As the person in charge of handling bulletins, addendums, and other major communications system aspects, Marsh can often be found tapping away at a keyboard or hunched over a scattered cluster of......

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It took some gentle convincing for Robert Gibh to accept his own laboratory, a small room next to Ash’s lab. What was once a plain, unadorned place has become filled with little gifts and mementos......

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Rosa Dhey’s lab resembles a greenhouse more than a lab. A thick bed of Kaverno Musko carpets the floor. Small planters hang on the walls and from the ceiling, while larger ones sit in neat rows,......

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If it weren’t for the bright green door, Roy Shade’s lab would resemble any other currently unoccupied lab. All the instruments on the counter are covered with dust cloths, and the housing units......

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Visitors to Sherman Kamada’s lab may find themselves pausing at the entrance as their vision adjusts to the dim lighting inside. A single lamp in the back illuminates a cluttered counter strewn......

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Stuck to the door of Soza Starrs’s lab is a note welcoming visitors and warning them to be quick about coming and going. Poles covered in cloth or rope are erected about the room and interconnect......

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Thad Rolmark’s lab embraces the term chaotic, with half-finished experiments, haphazard piles of notebooks and papers, and the occasional meal bar wrapper strewn across every available surface.......

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