The moment we start taking technology for granted, we risk stifling future innovation and creativity.

Research Center and Deputy Director of the Key Laboratory of Separation Science for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, China.

Sometimes it’s good to stop and think about what is truly important and whether we need to refocus – or redouble – our efforts.

Let’s go back to the early 1990s when an important innovation was starting to cause a stir. Electrospray ionization (ESI) essentially allowed liquid chromatography (LC) and mass spectrometry (MS) to be combined much more easily as an analytical technique.

Is analytical science poised to storm the theatre and steal the spotlight? Possibly not. But I do sense an increasingly central – and recognized – role, particularly in the clinic.

Do you want your spellbinding scientific poster to be seen by a wider audience?

Combining art and science is becoming a bit of a theme for The Analytical Scientist. Lewis Carroll’s reference to stereoisomers sent me down my own rabbit hole of discovery.

The M908 took the top spot in our 2013 Innovation Awards – “Revolutionary technology; will be an inspiration for new generations,” said the judges. Here, four co-founders of 908 Devices describe the perfect storm that led to the creation of the world’s first handheld mass spectrometer.

Accurate measurement drives progress in science in immeasurable ways. Here, we celebrate a year’s worth of advances in The Analytical Scientist Innovation Awards 2014. What impact will these 15 TASIA winners have on your field?

We dived into our analytics to find the most popular online articles. Here, we present a thought-provoking quote from each of the top ten.