This year in the advanced physics course I teach, I wanted to broaden student exposure to lab notebook keeping methods. Students could keep lab notebooks on traditional carbon copy paper, or they ...

Erin Bedford is a PhD student in Chemical Engineering at the University of Waterloo and in Chemistry at the Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris VI) in a co-supervised program. I’ve always had a ...

What are Electronic Laboratory Notebooks? Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELNs) or Electronic Research Notebooks (ERNs) are software tools developed to replace traditional paper-based lab notebooks ...

Two years into his PhD, Carl Boettiger needed a better way to organize his data and synthesize his ideas. Fishing around online, he stumbled across chemist Cameron Neylon's open electronic lab ...

Electronic lab notebooks with integrated audit trails can help labs avoid costly mistakes, maximize efficiency, and smooth links on multidisciplinary projects. Gesturing toward weighty cabinets filled ...

Dr. Samantha Kanza is a senior enterprise fellow at the University of Southampton, where she works on several research projects, including the digitization of scientific research. At the Future Labs ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Configuring socially distanced lab spaces for 2,900 general chemistry students was logistically impossible, so Purdue University’s beginning chemistry labs are taking place ...

Are you working for your data or are your data working for you? Over the last decade or so, labs have made the move from paper lab notebooks to digital laboratory platforms (DLPs). This is a great ...