When the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile sent students home during the COVID-19 pandemic, Fernán Federici needed to find a new way to teach his biochemistry lab course. Using open-source ...

Science is an expensive endeavor. Labs in the U.S. can easily spend millions of dollars each year on equipment, chemicals and supplies alone. But for scientists in the developing world, these costs ...

Schools play a vital role in expanding scientific knowledge. But a lack of teachers, budgets cuts, and teenage clumsiness have prevented many schools from updating–or even obtaining–basic lab ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Some say bigger is better ...

Since the first test-tube baby was born more than three decades ago, in vitro fertilization has evolved into a highly sophisticated lab procedure. Now, scientists are going back to basics and testing ...

Countries that study basic science enjoy faster economic growth, believes Klaus Jaffe, coordinator of the Centre for Strategic Studies of Simón Bolívar University in Venezuela. In his study of World ...

Most engineering and science laboratories in South Korea have a thick blue “encyclopedia” on their shelves. During an era when acquiring even a single beaker or reagent bottle was challenging, this ...