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China grapples with lab safety following huge growth in student numbers
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Apr 7
  • 1 min

China grapples with lab safety following huge growth in student numbers

In 2016, an explosion involving hydrogen and oxygen at the University of Hawaii in Manoa shocked the scientific world after it led to a...
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The gift of paper authorship
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jul 31, 2020
  • 1 min

The gift of paper authorship

A new study found that gift authorship is the most common type of research fraud in the United States. Yet it remains a common practice...
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A Team Approach to Tackling the Psychology Replication Crisis
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Nov 20, 2019
  • 1 min

A Team Approach to Tackling the Psychology Replication Crisis

In 2008, psychologists proposed that when humans are shown an unfamiliar face, they judge it on two main dimensions: trustworthiness and...
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Research on research gains steam
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Oct 1, 2019
  • 1 min

Research on research gains steam

The use of scientific methodology to study science itself is called metascience. The discipline, which has become mainstream in recent...
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Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in new database
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Aug 19, 2019
  • 1 min

Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in new database

The world’s most-cited researchers, according to newly released data, are a curiously eclectic bunch. Nobel laureates and eminent...
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Can Gut Bacteria Heal Food Allergies?
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jul 24, 2019
  • 1 min

Can Gut Bacteria Heal Food Allergies?

The number of people with food allergies has risen sharply in the last few decades, especially in Western nations. Around 8% of American...
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Statistics experts urge scientists to rethink the p-value
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Mar 21, 2019
  • 1 min

Statistics experts urge scientists to rethink the p-value

Misuse of commonly used statistical methods have for long plagued scholarly research, resulting in big claims being drawn from weak...
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Should Killers With a Violence Gene Get Lighter Sentences?
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jan 22, 2019
  • 1 min

Should Killers With a Violence Gene Get Lighter Sentences?

In 2015, Anthony Blas Yepez was sentenced to more than 22 years in prison after killing George Ortiz, his girlfriend’s step-grandfather....
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Assigning authorship for research papers can be tricky. These approaches can help
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Dec 20, 2018
  • 1 min

Assigning authorship for research papers can be tricky. These approaches can help

Maybe you’ve heard about the cat who co-authored a scientific paper—but what about the dog? That would be Grandmother Liboiron, owned by...
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Science’s Quality-Control Process Gets a Makeover
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Oct 1, 2018
  • 1 min

Science’s Quality-Control Process Gets a Makeover

A series of reports published last month shed light on how fatigued researchers are from conducting peer review on each others’ work....
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To Remember, the Brain Must Actively Forget
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jul 24, 2018
  • 1 min

To Remember, the Brain Must Actively Forget

Decades of research have focused on how the brain acquires information, resulting in theories about how short-term memories are stored in...
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Scientists Rarely Admit Mistakes. A New Project Wants to Change That.
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jul 2, 2018
  • 1 min

Scientists Rarely Admit Mistakes. A New Project Wants to Change That.

Many areas of science are facing questions over the reproducibility of findings reported in scholarly literature. Researchers haven't...
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A Wayback Machine for Source Code
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • May 2, 2018
  • 1 min

A Wayback Machine for Source Code

The web is fragile. In March 2016, software developer Azer Koçulu famously broke the internet by taking 11 lines of open source computer...
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Need a paper? Get a plug-in
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Nov 14, 2017
  • 1 min

Need a paper? Get a plug-in

A collection of web-browser plug-ins that trawl the web to find scholarly papers is making the scholarly literature more discoverable....
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The unsung heroes of scientific software
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jan 4, 2016
  • 1 min

The unsung heroes of scientific software

Coding is often treated as second-class activity in scientific research but a new tool launched by the Vancouver-based research software...
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How science is distilling its message
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Sep 9, 2015
  • 1 min

How science is distilling its message

With constant floods of information into academic literature, science publishers are rapidly realising that the need for brevity is more...
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Should we be nudging behaviour?
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Aug 27, 2015
  • 1 min

Should we be nudging behaviour?

From dancing pedestrian lights that encourage safer road crossing to painting babies’ faces on shop shutters to discourage robbery,...
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Rainbow Roads: A Cycling App That Spray Paints Bumps and Potholes
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Aug 26, 2015
  • 1 min

Rainbow Roads: A Cycling App That Spray Paints Bumps and Potholes

When designer and cycling enthusiast Florian Born moved to Berlin, one thing that bugged him was the number of bumps and potholes on the...
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Clay fridges keep food fresh without electricity
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • May 28, 2015
  • 1 min

Clay fridges keep food fresh without electricity

A staggering 1.3 billion people worldwide still don’t have access to electricity, and 95 percent of these people are based in either...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Aug 28, 2014
  • 1 min

BBC Future: The car designer who turned a sailfish into a supercar

Frank Stephenson, the Design Director of McLaren Automotive, says features from the sailfish inspired the design of McLaren Automotive's...
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