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Five online tools that aim to save researchers time and trouble
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jun 23, 2021
  • 1 min

Five online tools that aim to save researchers time and trouble

An expanding kit of digital tools and apps helps researchers automate certain processes and make others less burdensome. Nature Index has...
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Do You Have a Conflict of Interest? This Robotic Assistant May Find It First
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Nov 23, 2020
  • 1 min

Do You Have a Conflict of Interest? This Robotic Assistant May Find It First

What should science do about conflicts of interest? When they are identified, they become an obstacle to objectivity — a key tenet and a...
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New Office of Research Integrity leaders look to bring US agency into the digital age
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Aug 25, 2020
  • 1 min

New Office of Research Integrity leaders look to bring US agency into the digital age

Keeping tabs on research misconduct and scientific fraud is the job of the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) in the US Department of...
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The Global Attention Span Is Getting Shorter
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • May 2, 2019
  • 1 min

The Global Attention Span Is Getting Shorter

It’s not your imagination: keeping up with the sheer amount of content that’s available today — whether it’s Twitter, the news, or the...
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Springer Nature publishes chemistry book written entirely by machine
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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The need for digital intelligence
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Oct 3, 2018
  • 1 min

The need for digital intelligence

Children between the ages of 5 and 16 typically spend more than six hours a day in front of a screen. That rises to around eight hours...
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Is This Trendy $330 Fertility Thermometer a Ripoff?
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jul 25, 2018
  • 1 min

Is This Trendy $330 Fertility Thermometer a Ripoff?

An app that monitors birth control using temperature-based methods has come under scrutiny after a commentary appeared in a journal...
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Chemists criticise mooted shutdown of 3D visualisation tools
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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Technology behind bitcoin could aid science, report says
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Dec 1, 2017
  • 1 min

Technology behind bitcoin could aid science, report says

Blockchain, the technology behind the popular digital currency bitcoin, has the potential to transform research and the science...
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Great paper? Swipe right on the new ‘Tinder for preprints’ app
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jun 14, 2017
  • 1 min

Great paper? Swipe right on the new ‘Tinder for preprints’ app

A web application inspired by the dating app Tinder lets you make snap judgments about preprints—papers published online before peer...
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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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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Aug 7, 2015
  • 1 min

Create your own realistic digital double with a few selfies

A software created by researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne allows users to create a realistic avatars...
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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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New app helps sickle cell anaemia patients keep medical records
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Feb 2, 2015
  • 1 min

New app helps sickle cell anaemia patients keep medical records

Worldwide, there has been a push to digitalise medical records to make patients active participants in their treatments. A new app, SikL,...
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Imperial Collge Podcast: Digitalising medical records
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jan 21, 2015
  • 1 min

Imperial Collge Podcast: Digitalising medical records

My interview with Kit Huckvale, a PhD student at Imperial's Global eHealth department, appeared on this month's Imperial podcast. Kit and...
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Temporary tattoo measures blood glucose levels
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jan 16, 2015
  • 1 min

Temporary tattoo measures blood glucose levels

Diabetes patients often have to inject themselves with needles several times a day to check their blood glucose levels. But, a new...
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Ammonia gas detectors could be used to detect sites of open defecation
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Dec 16, 2014
  • 1 min

Ammonia gas detectors could be used to detect sites of open defecation

One in six people don't have access to toilets in developing countries. There is a culture of people practicing open defecation in many...
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Plastic bricks could protect Indian homes from monsoon
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Nov 21, 2014
  • 1 min

Plastic bricks could protect Indian homes from monsoon

Bricks made from soft plastic waste that can each withstand six tonnes of pressure and relentless rain could replace the clay and straw...
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The young vloggers and their fans who are changing the face of youth culture
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Sep 28, 2014
  • 1 min

The young vloggers and their fans who are changing the face of youth culture

Young video bloggers (vloggers) such as Zoe Sugg, known as Zoella, photographed above have millions of subscribers on YouTube and are now...
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Ant-sized radio runs on radio waves
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Sep 12, 2014
  • 1 min

Ant-sized radio runs on radio waves

An ant-sized batteryless radio that only costs a few pennies to make. Read the full post on the news website of Science magazine.
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