The art of notetaking has changed over the years, but one thing remains the same: the best students continue to strive for the most effective way to record their learnings. Academic notes have changed with the rise of technology, leading to the question of which notetaking method is the most efficient, organized, and useful. Everybody […]
Now that schools across the country are back in session, students are stepping into labs for the very first time as undergraduate researchers, and are in a valuable position to learn organizational skills in order to ensure that research notes in laboratory notebooks are kept tidy and legible for future reference. Whether you’re a student, a professor, […]
Research is the backbone of all scientific work. That research involves gathering lots of data. All the data collected during research needs to be stored somewhere. The best way to store that data is by recording it in a laboratory notebook. Such notebooks are especially popular in the U.S., China, and Japan where laboratories are […]
Typically, it takes a student eight years to complete their college education in pursuit of a Pharm.D., which allows them to become a qualified pharmacist. During this time, students will often use a laboratory notebook to record research and experiment details. It’s the first place you register all of your work, including hypotheses, experimental setup, […]
Roughly 411 million metric tons of cardboard and paper were manufactured around the world in 2016. A significant slice of this tonnage went into creating notebooks for various users, including the scientific community. Running your experiments and research is, for many people, infinitely more exciting than taking the time to update scientific notebooks. However, it’s […]
When learning a new skill, sitting in a lecture hall, or working in a lab, taking good notes is one of the most valuable things you can do. Taking good notes ensures that you will have a great resource to look back on. Taking notes also allows you to retain information much better. However, if […]
If you’re a student working in the lab of your university or you’re getting ready to work for a research company, having a lab notebook is essential to your work. For example, developing a medicine or vaccine can take 10 to 15 years to do. In that time, there’s going to be a lot of […]