HUMANKIND has created a new species for the first time. Not by building it from genes, as Craig Venter said he was planning to do last week (New Scientist, 30 November, p 12). And not by millions of ...

I got an advance copy of Anil Ananthaswamy's forthcoming Through Two Doors at Once a while back, and while I was too busy with my own book to read it in time to blurb it, I did manage to finish it ...

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Most at-home lab testing devices like Scanadu and Cor are still waiting for FDA approval, but simple lab testing can still be done in the confines of your own home and then shipped to a lab and that’s ...

Laboratory automation equipment is expensive stuff, to such a degree that small labs are often priced out of the market. That’s a shame, because there are a lot of tedious manual tasks that even ...

A team of researchers has developed a simple lab-based system for growing human muscle cells that are capable of vigorously contracting. A team of researchers at Tohoku University have developed a ...

Black, Latino and indigenous people are severely under-represented as learners and teachers of science, technology, engineering and math in academia. The lack of diversity has been documented for ...

Physicists have designed an experiment to explain the concept of magnetic resonance. A versatile technique employed in chemistry, physics, and materials research, magnetic resonance describes a ...