Many scientists will go out of their way to save a few bucks, especially when it comes to improvising with makeshift lab equipment. So when Jacquelyn Gill, an associate professor of paleoecology and ...

The biohacking movement has created a wealth of options for hobbyist scientists. In Brooklyn, a DIY lab offers a place for the curious to dabble On a crowded stretch of Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, on ...

I'm still waiting for the first reasonable set of DIY equipment that can replicate itself. Obviously it won't be one piece of gear, and I don't expect this to happen without human intervention, but it ...

Using 3D printing, cheap microcomputers and some other components you could pick up at at your local electronics store, researchers have pioneered an open-source, do-it-yourself alternative to ...

Joshua Pearce has penned a how-to book on the open-source 3-D printing technology that could revolutionize how science is done all over the world. Joshua Pearce is not one for understatement. "This is ...

When the gas chromatograph spectrophotometer broke late last summer, it was Grant Wallace's job to fix it. The instrument, which the University of Minnesota graduate student is using to measure the ...

There is something creepily fascinating about this piece of DiY lab equipment, fashioned in Denmark during the 1970s. Can you guess its purpose? Not for the faint of heart. The habitrails may have ...

Don't judge Daniel Grushkin because he used to perform science experiments in his cramped New York apartment. Even though he isn't a typical scientist, the amateur biologist still managed to insert a ...

A lot of scientific software is freeware or free/open source software (FOSS). That’s appropriate: just as the process of science should be open to enhance reproducibility, its tools should be as ...

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