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 ...

Plants are powerhouses of molecular manufacturing. Over the eons, they have evolved to produce a plethora of small molecules—some are beneficial and valuable to humans, while others can be deadly. For ...

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 ...