laboratory

Like, for that, you still need standard old-fashioned non-laboratory historical work.

At no point in that well-referenced, well-known story does anyone mention heating hamsters in laboratories in the 1950s.

Laboratories doing research on urban sanitation, wastewater treatment, and even life support systems in space often need a safe and realistic stand-in for excrement, of which there are many interesting recipes published in the academic literature.

Those papers were written by scientists at the National Institute for Medical Research, a government laboratory in Mill Hill, in suburban North London, about half a mile that way.

Loneliness is just an opportunity to go further, to explore your social health, to be a scientist in the laboratory that is your social life.