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 ...

Scientists can furnish research and education labs for a small fraction of the cost by printing their own equipment, says Michigan Tech's Joshua Pearce, who explains how in his new book, "Open-Source ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Eyes trained on the cells under his microscope, Gustavo Batista Menezes had more on his mind than just science. Menezes was using a specialized confocal microscope at the University of Calgary, Canada ...

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 ...