Dalmeet Singh Chawla
Science publishers settle lawsuits with ResearchGate
The American Chemical Society and Elsevier have reached a legal settlement with the academic social networking site ResearchGate. The...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Sep 1
- 1 min
Chemist made-up data in 4 NIH grant applications
A chemist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville made-up data in four grant applications to the US National Institutes of Health, a...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Aug 29
- 1 min
Flawed chemistry papers can take more than a year to be retracted
Almost 59% of the chemistry papers retracted in the last two decades were pulled due to research misconduct, and the process often took...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jun 5
- 1 min
The OPCW’s never-ending fight to eliminate chemical weapons
In 1997, the Chemical Weapons Convention—a first-of-its-kind global disarmament agreement—came into force. The treaty was championed by...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- May 9
- 1 min
Prominent nanoscientist retracts paper after PhD students flagged error
The authors of a 2018 nanoscience paper have retracted the article after three doctoral students highlighted a problem with its methods....
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- May 9
- 1 min
Chemist in India loses seven papers, blames outsourcing of images
A chemistry researcher in India has had seven of his papers retracted after the publisher concluded that some images in the papers showed...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 7
- 1 min
Highly-cited chemist is suspended for claiming to be affiliated with Russian and Saudi universities
The University of Córdoba has suspended a highly-cited chemist for 13 years after finding that he had claimed to be affiliated with a...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 7
- 1 min
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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