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 ...

The Nieman Journalism Lab is an attempt to help journalism figure out its future in an Internet age. The Internet has brought forth an unprecedented flowering of news and information. But it has also ...

Last year, in July, Reine Protacio’s experiments suddenly stopped working. Every scientist encounters baffling results from time to time; you chalk it up to error, repeat the experiment, and hope for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Detecting disease-causing bacteria just got easier, as a simple color change could revolutionize detection and improve food safety. Engineers and biochemists at McMaster university have brought their ...

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 ...

Just a few generations after evolving multicellularity, lab yeasts have already settled into at least two distinct lifestyles. The discovery suggests that organisms can swiftly fill new niches opened ...

Abu Dhabi: Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB), a leading financial institution, has launched a new innovation centre, known as the “ADIB Simple Lab”, to create and invest in new technology in line with the ...

The clear test at left indicates a negative result, while the red color in the test at right indiates a positive result. A novel new test for bacteria in fluids makes it as easy as observing a colour ...