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

Being a neuroscientist means I have a lot of awkward conversations in Home Depot. “What do you need it for?” the sales guy inquires after I ask where I might find Kapton tape, a special polyimide tape ...

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 ...

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 ...