Dalmeet Singh Chawla
French National Center for Scientific Research faulted over chemistry lab misconduct probe
Research integrity experts have written an open letter to the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) urging it to...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 27
- 1 min
Chemistry bots under threat from changes to Twitter’s API rules
More than a dozen chemistry bots that rely on Twitter’s application programming interface (API) to function could become defunct if the...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 6
- 1 min
A Conversation with Greta Heydenrych, IUPAC's new executive director
For most chemists, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), is the organization that gives elements their names and...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Aug 23, 2022
- 1 min
Author makes popular chemistry textbook free after discovering copyright loophole
The author of a popular organic chemistry textbook is making it freely available to students after learning about a loophole in his...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 27, 2022
- 1 min
800 crystallography-related papers appear to stem from one paper mill
At least 800 research studies published in crystallography and exotic-chemistry journals originate from a paper mill, a new study...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Nov 10, 2021
- 1 min
Former chemistry professor jailed for making meth
A former chemistry professor was sentenced to 4 months in jail by an Arkansas court after pleading guilty to making methamphetamine at...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 28, 2021
- 1 min
Court acquits chemistry professor accused of cooking meth
A court has acquitted a former chemistry professor at Henderson State University (HSU) in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, after a jury found him...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Aug 20, 2021
- 1 min
Chemists react to UK umbrella funding body’s new open access mandate
British umbrella funding agency UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) announced its long-awaited open access policy at a virtual roundtable...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- May 13, 2021
- 1 min
Prominent US chemical engineer leaves post amid allegations of image irregularities
A high-profile chemical engineer and nanomedicine professor at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, has left his position...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Nov 30, 2020
- 1 min
Former chemistry student pleads guilty to poisoning roommate
A former chemistry student has pleaded guilty to poisoning his roommate with highly toxic thallium. Yukai Yang, an international student...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jun 19, 2020
- 1 min
Royal Society of Chemistry releases plan to diversify academic publishing
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has released its “framework for action” to improve the diversity of its editors, peer-reviewers, and...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- May 30, 2019
- 1 min
Retracted chemistry studies most often plagued with plagiarism
More than 40% of chemistry papers retracted in the last two years were pulled because of plagiarism, according to a new study. The next...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 18, 2019
- 1 min
Springer Nature publishes chemistry book written entirely by machine
Springer Nature, the world’s second biggest academic publisher, has published the first scholarly book authored entirely by machines. The...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 18, 2019
- 1 min
Chemistry student to face trial for allegedly poisoning roommate with thallium
A chemistry student who allegedly poisoned his roommate with highly toxic thallium will face trial and has had his bail raised to $2.5...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 11, 2018
- 1 min
Graduate student gets prison sentence for poisoning colleague
A former chemistry PhD candidate at Queen’s University in Canada who confessed to poisoning a colleague has been sentenced to seven years...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 11, 2018
- 1 min
BBC Science in Action: Publishers vs ResearchGate lawsuit
Scholarly publishers Elsevier and the American Chemical Society have filed a lawsuit against ResearchGate, an academic social networking...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 9, 2018
- 1 min
Elsevier and American Chemical Society escalate legal fight with academic networking site
The American Chemical Society (ACS) and publishing giant Elsevier have filed a second lawsuit against ResearchGate, alleging mass...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jun 20, 2018
- 1 min
Chemists criticise mooted shutdown of 3D visualisation tools
Researchers are voicing concerns over a move that may affect many 3D visualisation programs that are commonly used in computational...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 5, 2018
- 1 min
Mismatch between citations and chemists’ expectations
The studies chemistry researchers perceive to be the most important in their field are not always the ones that get cited the most,...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Nov 6, 2017
- 1 min
Court demands that search engines and internet service providers block Sci-Hub
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has won a lawsuit it filed in June against Sci-Hub, a website providing illicit free access to...
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