To encourage do-it-yourself civic science, Public Lab offers kits for making your own spectrometer. Credit: Jeff Warren on Flickr This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or ...

Scientific research used to be limited to the halls of academia, but a growing movement is breaking down those walls, showing that anyone can take a crack at being a scientist. Tucked behind a house ...

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 ...