It didn't take long for my home lab to shift from being a tool and hobby, to a pretty serious responsibility. One borked ...

In the spring of 2010, on an episode of the radio show “The Story,” I heard the tale of a British couple who lived trash-free. I walked home from my laboratory at the University of Michigan and told ...

My homelab is a toy. And I don't mean that in a bad way. It's a hobby, and the lab is a playground for me to check out cool ...

As a graduate student who was on the verge of performing the last experiment for a paper, I lament the timing of COVID-19 – it could not have been more inconvenient. My lab’s research at the ...

A year and a half ago, as I was preparing to launch my own laboratory studying cognition at Columbia University in New York City, I kept returning to a particular concern: I would soon be responsible ...

I’m very much in favor of the effort to interest students of all ages in STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) disciplines. Even if this does not increase the number of STEM professionals long ...

From the time she was a child, Anna-Sophia Boguraev has had her eye on space. When she was 4, she built a cardboard rocket ship. She asked a lot of questions, loved looking at the stars and was set on ...