Laboratory notebooks contain a literal wealth of information to advance research enterprise-wide, to protect and support patents, and to streamline the regulatory submissions process—if only they ...

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 ...

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 ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Electronic laboratory notebooks can be a valuable part of a college science education but are not yet a substitute for traditional paper laboratory notebooks, according to a Duke ...

Research involving 150 laboratory professionals shows that most labs currently operate in a so-termed ‘passive state’, using electronic laboratory notebooks (ELNs) as digital filing cabinets, or a ...

Electronic lab notebooks (ELNs) are valuable for laboratory digitization infrastructure, but they behave like digital filing cabinets that cannot do more than simply record generated data. Artificial ...

Electronic laboratory notebooks (ELNs) were developed to keep track of experiments and data so that scientists could review their work in a single place and easily reproduce experiments. Many ELNs ...

University science laboratories are often on the forefront of cutting-edge technology and experimentation. So why are students still recording their lab results with pencil and paper? Todd E. Woerner, ...

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 ...

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 ...