A roundup of this month’s business news, from virtual product launches to industry buyouts adjusted for the COVID-19 era

MS/MS-based metabolomics reveals that plants can adapt their chemical defenses to ward off insect attacks

Memoirs of a spectroscopist: Peter Griffiths talks us through his meteoric career and the moments that defined it

Microspectroscopy could help the search for Earth’s first animals

Every major mass extinction can now be linked to global warming

Exploring influential Black figures who shaped our field as we know it

Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” is beginning to show its age - spectroscopy can tell us how to better protect it

Ice cores tell the tale of man’s history - and our shifting climate.

A round-up of this month’s business news, from the world’s most powerful NMR to continued COVID-19 testing

A low-cost smartphone test can identify pathogens in 30 minutes