Some instruments in teaching laboratories may look old-fashioned, but those wooden boxes can hold surprisingly advanced equipment. George Herold describes his career designing experiments for ...

Holmarc Opto-Mechatronics manufactures a variety of scientific and engineering instruments for research, industry, and education, including imaging instruments, measuring instruments, spectroscopy, ...

Physicists often find thrifty, ingenious ways to reuse equipment and resources. What do you do with 800 square feet of scintillator from an old physics experiment? Cut it up and give it to high ...

Jonathan F. Reichert and his company, TeachSpin, are building complex devices the way few physics labs are making them nowadays: less complex, and with old-fashioned materials. Those kinds of ...