AMES, Iowa – Steve Martin has seven plaques hanging above his office windows, each commemorating an invention or co-invention, each showing off the front page of an official U.S. patent. As you’d ...

Quality Good Laboratory Notebook Practice Laboratory notebooks can be an integral part of a company's controlled documentation but must be managed carefully to ensure quality. John A. DeLucia ...

Quick quiz: Your company develops a patentable innovation six months before your competitor. Who is entitled to a U.S. patent for that invention? The answer? It depends. Under U.S. patent law, the ...

Laboratory managers have several responsibilities, including keeping a record of everything that happens, especially their findings. However, manually tracking reports and data using paper notebooks ...

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 ...

When the coronavirus pandemic closed the University of Minnesota in St Paul, plant pathologist Linda Kinkel’s laboratory team cast around for tasks they could do from home. They realized there was one ...

Scientists have long depended on pen and paper to record their observations, filling volumes of lab notebooks with their work. While Charles Darwin’s drawings and diagrams or Albert Einstein’s ...

A PhD student with Irlen syndrome encounters challenges when reading and writing in black on white paper. This makes notetaking difficult. Note taking is an important part of lab work or any ...

Many scientists will be familiar with the electronic lab notebook (ELN) as a piece of digital software that allows scientists to digitally record details of their experiments in software, as opposed ...

Google Colab and Jupyter Notebook are powerful tools for coding and data analysis, each offering unique features and benefits. Compare them to choose the best fit for your needs. Creating, organizing, ...

Google's NotebookLM is one of the only AI tools I open at least once every day. If you aren't familiar with what NotebookLM is, it's Google's wildly underrated research assistant. I discovered ...