A PhD student with Irlen syndrome encounters challenges when reading and writing in black on white paper. This makes notetaking difficult. Note taking is an important part of lab work or any ...

This year in the advanced physics course I teach, I wanted to broaden student exposure to lab notebook keeping methods. Students could keep lab notebooks on traditional carbon copy paper, or they ...

I was consulting with a colleague (a tenured principal investigator) whose lab had an internal disagreement about a research process in a mixed-methods study involving recruitment of teachers. I ...

Laboratory managers have several responsibilities, including keeping a record of everything that happens, especially their findings. However, manually tracking reports and data using paper notebooks ...

Laboratory notebooks are essential components of the scientific process because they allow researchers to record hypotheses, methods, results, and analyses. They also serve as organizational tools and ...

Erin Bedford is a PhD student in Chemical Engineering at the University of Waterloo and in Chemistry at the Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris VI) in a co-supervised program. I’ve always had a ...

Many scientists will be familiar with the electronic lab notebook (ELN) as a piece of digital software that allows scientists to digitally record details of their experiments in software, as opposed ...

Lab books are great from the point of view that they are highly portable, don't need power, and if you spill something on them (assuming it is not acid or something equally nasty) fairly resilient to ...