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 ...

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 ...

Unless your lucky enough to have a big personal workshop where you can have dedicated stations for all kinds of different tools, you’re probably like most of us here at Hack a Day — lots of projects, ...

Let’s talk about something near and dear to my old, shriveled heart: the electronics lab. Recently I’ve wondered if lab work is becoming obsolete. To me, the key to a robust design is testing and ...

It’s hardly a secret that getting into a serious electronics habit can be detrimental to your bank account. A professional grade lab is simply unobtainable for many a tinkerer, and even mid-range ...

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 ...

The use of electronic laboratory notebooks should be supported by all concerned. Too often when errors or cases of fraud occur in science, the lab data required to reconstruct what happened have gone ...

What are Electronic Laboratory Notebooks? Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELNs) or Electronic Research Notebooks (ERNs) are software tools developed to replace traditional paper-based lab notebooks ...