Dalmeet Singh Chawla
New tool detects papers originating from paper mills
A new tool has been launched to detect studies that are the product of paper mills, which churn out subpar scientific papers that...
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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
- Jan 20
- 1 min
Confused by open-access policies? These tools can help
Funding-agency policies mandating that scientific papers and data are made publicly available have helped to drive the adoption of...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 20, 2022
- 1 min
AI system not yet ready to help peer reviewers assess research quality
Researchers tasked with examining whether artificial intelligence (AI) technology could assist in the peer review of journal articles...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 13, 2022
- 1 min
The chemist who uses paper devices to spot fake and substandard drugs
For years, chemist Marya Lieberman of the University of Notre Dame and her team have been developing analytical paper diagnostics that...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 14, 2022
- 1 min
Should AI have a role in assessing research quality?
Efforts to ease the workloads of peer reviewers by using artificial intelligence (AI) are gathering pace — with one country’s main...
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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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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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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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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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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
- 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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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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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
- 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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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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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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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
- 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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