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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Laboratory equipment is one of the largest cost factors in neuroscience. However, many experiments can be performed with good results using self-assembled setups involving 3-D printed components and ...

Lab equipment is often expensive, but budgets can be tight and not always up to getting small labs or researchers what they need. That’s why [akshay_d21] designed an Open Source Lab Rocker with a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Remember how cool science was when you were a kid? Katriona Guthrie-Honea is hoping to rekindle that thrill for people of all ages with Seattle’s first do-it-yourself biotech lab. HiveBio, which ...