A mass spectrometer is a complicated and expensive piece of equipment -- so complicated and so expensive, in fact, that most undergraduate chemistry students never get a chance to use one. Now ...

Weight says a lot. In the kitchen, it could mean cooking with too little or too much of an ingredient. For scientists, a ...

At $1 million, many schools cannot afford the latest spectrometry equipment to help students conduct experiments such as determining the composition of a polymer, detecting the presence of cocaine in ...

While advances in modern technology have allowed average people access to tremendous computing power as well as novel tools like 3D printers and laser cutters for a bare minimum cost, around here we ...

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Cifani lab has developed a new mass spectrometry technique that pushes the performance of ...

The Mass Spectrometry Core Laboratory has 1,000 square feet of laboratory space dedicated to providing analytical capabilities to support the Michigan Tech mission. The laboratory provides advanced ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—A Mississippi State faculty member in the Department of Chemistry is the principal investigator of a $390,000 National Science Foundation grant to develop an optical spectrometer to ...

Using a mass spectrometer allows scientists to weigh the molecules of an unknown material, which can then be matched to the lab’s database. “We just hold a wood sliver with tweezers and let a ...

As much as we know today about the planets of the solar system, it’s almost incomprehensible that a mere 50 years ago we knew almost nothing about them. Observations of even Mars and Venus, Earth’s ...

Some years ago, David Gehl made an unusual trip to Siberia. “I went to lots of sawmills and forests and came back from Russia and China with, like, 20 kg of wood boards on my back,” he recalls. Gehl ...