Scientific Equipment, Experiments & Techniques

Over the last two decades, advances in the design, miniaturization, and analytical capabilities of portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) instrumentati...

Learn how to create functional gadgets using simple but clever circuits based on the venerable 555. These projects will give you hands-on experienc...

Forensic DNA analysis plays a central role in the judicial system. A DNA sample can change the course of an investigation with immense consequences...

The Fundamentals of Biomedical Science series has been written to reflect the challenges of practicing biomedical scientists today. It draws togeth...

If the twentieth century saw the rise of Big Science, then the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were surely an age of thrift. As Simon Werretts...

Bored of the same old dinner-party chitchat? Spice up your soirées, impress your guests and show up your brother-in-law with Dangerous Experiments ...

An award-winning science journalist details the quest to isolate and understand dark matterand shows how that search has helped us to understand th...

By the early 17th century the Scientific Revolution was well under way. Philosophers and scientists were throwing off the yoke of ancient authority...