Prebacked Health Hackathon to Front More Than $100k in Prizes, Oct 19-21 10/13/2012 Calling all maker-entrepreneurs in the healthcare space. Here’s an opportunity to get your startup funded on the fast track at...
MedHack – Hackers Take on Medicine – August 10th & 11th in Palo Alto 07/30/2012 Medicine in the US is broken. We face a shortage of doctors, looming medical costs, and an average lifespan that doesn’t...
Burning Man in Five Minutes: The Playa Time Lapse Project 11/04/2011 Check out The Playa Time Lapse Project, which captured a bird's eye view of 27 days of Burning Man set...
BioCurious Officially Opens — Test DNA, Build Equipment, Find a Co-founder and More… 10/14/2011 Think science is for geeks in lab coats or little kids growing bean trees in styrofoam cups? Time for a...
Search for buried treasure with your very own OpenROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) 03/14/2011 OpenROV ("ROV1") is a shoebox-sized Arduino-controlled submarine device, with an onboard HD webcam, designed to operate in an unexplored underwater...
Cheap DIY GFP (Green Fluorescent Protein) Illuminator 03/04/2011 Cheap DIY GFP and DsRED Detection Nope, it wasn't a creepy-crawly fetish that got me reading The Worm Breeder's Gazette....
Citizens as sensors 01/26/2011 Quick question: If you were having a heart attack and could choose one person to help you &emdash; either a...
Contest: The curiosity-driven life. Your foible could drive the next Citizen Science study! 12/05/2010 Have you ever wanted to take a closer look at an aspect of life - such as how diet effects...
DIYbio NYC on the BioBus 10/01/2010 This past weekend, the World Maker Faire in NYC had a wide range of makers showcasing a variety of projects...
Eri Gentry interviews Melanie Swan of DIYgenomics 09/28/2010 We have surely entered the age of citizen science! Take, for example, my father’s reaction thirty years ago to a...