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 ...

Research shows that 77 percent of lab professionals now use public AI tools alongside their ELN. For many, this is not driven by policy decisions, but by necessity. Governed tools do not yet support ...

Scientists have long depended on pen and paper to record their observations, filling volumes of lab notebooks with their work. While Charles Darwin’s drawings and diagrams or Albert Einstein’s ...

As most labs have moved away from paper record-keeping, electronic lab notebooks (ELNs) have become the de facto solution for storing experimental data. But scientists are realizing that an ELN can be ...

In some countries, Europe, for example, an invention belongs to the first person to file a patent for it. In the United States, the conception determines ownership of an invention. In other words, an ...

A deeper look at unmanaged AI use, also known as "shadow AI", as a response to workflow friction in laboratories.

Electronic laboratory notebooks (ELNs) have become integral to modern research environments, helping scientists document, organize, and share their experimental work. But as research grows more ...

Quick quiz: Your company develops a patentable innovation six months before your competitor. Who is entitled to a U.S. patent for that invention? The answer? It depends. Under U.S. patent law, the ...