Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Resting on a fingertip, this miniature sensor replaces bulky laboratory equipment by using photon-trapping surface nanostructures ...

Despite its promise, the lab-on-a-chip has been missing an essential component: a miniature pump—or, rather, a miniature pump with a suitably diminutive power supply. Typical electroosmotic pumps ...

Washington: Scientists are trying to shrink chip-based labs to a dust sized particle, used in detection of bio-weapons, pollution, or to conduct on-the-spot blood tests. Although the existing versions ...

For decades, bulky spectrometers have been the main tools for understanding how things are made of chemicals (a thing called composition). Spectrometers are a type of lab equipment that uses prisms or ...