Basic scientists are often pursuing research so cutting edge that the tools they need haven’t even been invented yet. So they do it themselves, sometime creating their own lab equipment out of a ...

In the laboratory it is important that all the right tools and equipment are present if a research study or set of experiments are to be carried out correctly.

A nonprofit called Seeding Labs ships surplus scientific lab equipment to universities and research facilities in developing countries.

Funding is still being determined, Hastings says. The facility will include a wet lab and equipment including refrigerators, ultra-low-temperature freezers for DNA samples and other biological ...

In 2015, Mpofu and her husband decided to do something about the situation. “We bought chemicals, glassware and other equipment,” Mpofu says about her first efforts to try and get basic lab equipment ...

But a lack of teachers, budgets cuts, and teenage clumsiness have prevented many schools from updating–or even obtaining–basic lab equipment for experiments.

While some students come quite prepared, it’s very frustrating for me to have students coming into a college biology class with no knowledge of basic lab equipment and techniques, such as using ...

The zooarchaeology lab contains the Department’s comparative faunal collection. Bench space and basic laboratory equipment – balances, lamps, microscopes - are available for researchers. Depending on ...

Science labs across the country are running low on crucial equipment. Our Planet Money team investigated what is behind the supply shortage.