Using swarms of pinhead-sized magnets inside a handheld, all-in-one lab kit, UCLA researchers have developed a technology that could significantly increase the speed and volume of disease testing, ...

Using swarms of pinhead-sized magnets inside a handheld, all-in-one lab kit, researchers have developed a technology that could significantly increase the speed and volume of disease testing, while ...

Adam Fortais explains how the “At-Home Lab Kit” allows undergraduate students at McMaster University to do physics experiments while sheltering in place. This post is part of a series on how the COVID ...

A type of device called a "lab-on-a-chip" could bring a new generation of instant home tests for illnesses, food contaminants and toxic gases. But today these portable, efficient tools are often stuck ...

Few scientists know that, instead of buying their lab equipment, they can often build it much more cheaply — and customize their creations — by following ‘open-hardware’ instructions that are freely ...

If you've got mold in your house, choose one of these test kits to determine what kind of mold you've got so you can ...

Open source hardware and software company Arduino has teamed up with Google to develop and launch the Arduino Science Kit Physics Lab. Designed for students aged 11 to 14, the kit helps kids ...

A number of trends are converging to encourage consumers to manage more of their health themselves and leave less of it up to a doctor. The cultural zeitgeist loves data, and mobile devices make it ...

Government leaders and health officials have expressed concerns this week over a lack of available COVID-19 test kits, the official laboratory materials that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...