Joshua Pearce, an associate professor at Michigan Technological University, bemoans the "often extreme prices we pay for scientific equipment" and relates this anecdote: "Last year, I received a quote ...

Transforming a hardware concept into a market-ready product is a demanding, multi-stage process. It requires far more than creativity or access to tools. In the hardware industry, competitive products ...

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Looking to create your dream home lab? You could throw everything onto an old PC or a few Raspberry Pi devices and call it a day, but there's another route you could take for the ultimate setup. Ever ...

Rising demands in healthcare research, pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, along with increased spending on research and development, has fueled greater reliance on life science and medical ...

Area 404 is a 22,000-square-foot lab with a scanning electron microscope, 60,000-PSI of waterjet cutting power, and more giant machines. If you’re a heavy user of Facebook, Messenger, or Instagram, ...

Ask any home lab enthusiast about their setup, and you’ll probably hear them ramble about second-hand server hardware. After all, a huge number of CPU cores and tons of (ECC-compatible) memory slots ...

Sally Tinkle and others (see Nature 503, 463–464; 2013) highlight the importance of open-source software and data sharing in materials science. But researchers should also be developing free and ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--5G Open Innovation Lab (5G OI Lab), CoMotion at the University of Washington (UW), and T-Mobile today announced a collaboration that will enable hardware startups to develop, ...