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 ...

Joshua Pearce is not one for understatement. "This is the beginning of a true revolution in the sciences," says the author of "Open-Source Lab." For cash-strapped researchers, he could be right. His ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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