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Microfluidics: the new home chemistry kit?

What’s the difference between work and play when it comes to science? Not much, sometimes. Linda Stone, upon interviewing Nobel Laureates in 2009 found: When these men talked about their work in the lab today and their childhood play patterns, it was the same conversation.  They played passionately as children and the emergent questions and [...]

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A new era for DIY science

Lately DIY science seems to be everywhere. A few weeks ago Nature Biotechnology published an article on the DIYbio movement, while Technology Review wrote about how to take pictures of the earth from space for $150. And don’t forget the rise of O’Reilly’s Make Magazine. Although people have been programming (and building!) computers at home [...]

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