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Cao Xuetao, a senior researcher in China and president of Nankai University in Tianjin, is facing allegations of image manipulation in several papers he has authored.
I had the hardest semester of my life but I got something great out of it. I started a new job this fall – one of my top-choice careers, at one of my top-choice…
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  • May 3, 2019
Using the optical properties of a material to manipulate light signals is called light modulation, a method widely used in optical communication. In a groundbreaking…
On New Year’s Eve, I received a call from my supervisor. He told me that, during a storm, my pigeon shed had flooded. All of my power boards and electrical cables were…
I always knew there was something different about me. I was in 5th grade and I still had problems spelling my name. In exams where I had to write if the answer was “b”…
Are you an author or contributor? Is this a question that often occurs to you? This article explains CRediT, short for Contributor Roles Taxonomy, to help you with…
I have been unsurprisingly a little under the weather quite recently, and this has been brought on by working too hard! After three hectic months of working and being…
My age insecurities, my natural shyness and tendency to use class time to its fullest has been working against me in terms of finding “my people.” I’m sure that I’ll…
I started in the Brown lab in 2006 and I still haven’t left. Most people currently in the lab were probably in primary school when I was doing my Honours. And you may…
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  • June 13, 2019
Infographics are visual communication formats containing graphs, charts, and illustrations. This article explores the role of infographics in healthcare and how they…