In the landlocked, sub-Saharan country of Malawi, oftentimes only land separates wells for drinking water from sewage in toilet pits. Cholera, a highly contagious bacterial disease found in ...

A lot of scientific software is freeware or free/open source software (FOSS). That’s appropriate: just as the process of science should be open to enhance reproducibility, its tools should be as ...

(Nanowerk News) 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 ...

In a significant move towards educational equity and empowerment, UNESCO Islamabad Office has equipped girls' lower secondary schools in districts of Muzaffargarh in South Punjab, Tharparkar in Sindh ...

Ian Lightcap had a problem. The core facility director at the University of Notre Dame had a lot of aging equipment on his hands and a plan to upgrade it—but no plan for what to do with the old ...

It's a familiar refrain: we need to do more to attract and retain students in STEM majors. As a New York Times story argued late last year, one of the keys to doing so involves less lecture, more ...

Data is one of the most valuable assets your company possesses. This is particularly true for scientific data, which is the accumulation of many hours of parallel investment in resources, such as time ...

Landing humans on Mars requires Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL) capabilities beyond what are currently available and in use. The largest payload delivered to the Martian surface to date has been the ...

Texas A&M students take food science from lab to label, creating market-ready sauces in a hands-on pilot plant.