SUNNYVALE, Calif. (KGO) -- The Bay Area is home to some of leading biotechnology research in the country. But not all that research is being done in the laboratories of major corporations at ...

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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 ...

Many scientists will go out of their way to save a few bucks, especially when it comes to improvising with makeshift lab equipment. So when Jacquelyn Gill, an associate professor of paleoecology and ...

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 ...

As wood grows more scarce across the globe—think deforestation and forest-devastating wildfires—researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have a plan: to grow wood-like timber in a lab.

Picture a jeweler at work. Magnifier in hand, he examines a stone, studying the way light dances off it. He’s trying to determine whether it’s a diamond or merely cut glass, of engagement-ring quality ...

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