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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Have you ever needed to hunt down a short circuit, but you’ve had no idea where it is or how it’s happening? As it turns out, there are tools to help in that regard. Enter the Leakseeker-89R. The ...

In my last post I claimed that you can do biology, even synthetic biology, at home. But the kicker is that it's an expensive hobby. Outfitting a commercial or academic lab is incredibly expensive, ...

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 ...

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