Many of us have played with whirligigs as kids, but now these playthings made of buttons and twine are getting a new life as medical lab tools for the developing world. Bioengineers at Stanford ...

Usually, the arts are a field in which you can commonly point to concepts such as a muse, or inspiration. But it’s also an important part of the narrative of scientific discovery and innovation. Take ...

Kids are already over fidget spinners after adults rapidly made them uncool, but a team of scientists in Taiwan has found a nifty way to repurpose these small toys. They turned them into inexpensive ...

Visit any modern diagnostic labs and you’ll likely find at least a few centrifuges, machines that exploit centrifugal force to separate fluids into different layers based on densities. However, in ...

Scientists from NASA and two U.S. universities are using a 20-G centrifuge machine that can simulate up to 20 times the terrestrial gravity to evaluate the effects of hypergravity on humans. This ...

USEC announced that it aims to update its loan guarantee application within months after continued progress during the first quarter of 2010 with its American Centrifuge testing program. USEC ...

TAKE a cardboard disc and punch two holes in it, on either side of its centre. Thread a piece of string through each hole. Now, pull on each end of the strings and the disc will spin frenetically in ...

Researchers have used the technology behind a 5,000-year-old toy to create a cheap paper device that can separate blood and could could change how some diseases are diagnosed in the developing world.