Fueled by donations, sweat, and occasional dumpster diving, community laboratories for DIY biologists are cropping up around the country.
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Citizen scientists can inspire innovation and advance science education—and they are proving adept at self-policing.
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Do-it-yourself science is likely as old as science itself, driven by an inherent curiosity about the world around us.
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Physicists and biologists are working together to understand cooperation at all levels of life, from the cohesion of molecules to interspecies interactions.
The small organ evolved too many times for it to be an accident, but it’s still unclear what it does.
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