Laboratory boosters are town upgrades, not match-3 boosters.
You can activate these special boosters in the Laboratory building using gems to temporarily improve production, farming, transport, and trade in your town.
These boosters affect your town buildings and economy — they do not work in match-3 levels.
Here are the Laboratory boosters currently available:
Super-harvest: fields yield twice as much.
Advanced farming: animals produce twice as much.
Generous customer: orders earn twice as many coins.
Favorable voyage: ingots are twice as efficient when sending off ships.
See the light: makes ore and artifacts from the darkened areas in the mine visible.
Vibrant market: the items at the market are updated twice as often.
High-speed production: goods at your factories take 30% less time to produce.
Efficient smelting: ingots take 50% less time to produce.
Active cooperation: new requests can be made in 30% less time.
There are also 8 boosters which you can obtain for free during events or purchase with tokens at the Yacht Club. These boosters are not purchasable with gems.
Rich fields: crops are ready 40% faster.
Profitable flight: filling plane crates earns twice as many coins.
Record demand: new orders at the helicopter pad appear 80% faster.
Shortcut: trains arrive twice as fast.
Smart navigation: ships arrive twice as fast.
Busy trade: dealer's break time cut in half.
Spacious barn: increases barn capacity by 20%.
Large request: requests in the co-op chat bring 30% more goods.