Dalmeet Singh Chawla
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
- Dec 20, 2022
- 1 min
Why children have to wait years for new drugs
A shortage of participants means that paediatric trials take longer and there is less financial incentive for pharmaceutical companies....
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 7, 2022
- 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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