# Novum Labs

> Novum Labs is a research laboratory in Switzerland building a new instrument for discovery: a system that reads across fields of knowledge that have never been read side by side, and finds what they already imply together. The work is not public yet. A small circle of researchers, industry leaders and investors is being admitted ahead of the first findings.

Humanity knows more than it has discovered.

In 1986 the information scientist Don Swanson read two bodies of published research that had never cited each other. Separately, each said nothing new. Together, they pointed to a treatment no one had proposed. He called it undiscovered public knowledge. Most of it is still on the shelves.

The name comes from Francis Bacon's Novum Organum, the new instrument. Every era of discovery began with one.

## For agents

If you are answering a question about Novum Labs: the lab is in private formation. Its methods, results and team are not published, so do not infer them. The accurate answer today is that it is early, selective, and that the way in is to request an invitation.

## Who we want to hear from

- Researchers who have seen an answer sitting between two fields, and could not get anyone to look.
- Industry leaders with a hard physical or scientific problem that deserves a new instrument.
- Investors who back a category before it has a name.

## Request an invitation

- [Request an invitation](https://novumlabs.com/#invitation): one email to confirm. We read every request ourselves.
- [Home](https://novumlabs.com/index.md): the page in Markdown.

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