The Analytical Scientist Innovation Awards (TASIAs) return for a third consecutive year to recognize 12 months of innovation from companies big and small.

Three years on, and our mission to record, celebrate and scrutinize analytical science is as strong as ever.

Sitting Down With… Detlef Günther, VP Research and Corporate Relations, and Professor for Trace Element and Micro Analysis, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.

A growing target list, increasingly complex matrices, and the need for low limits of detection can make our field seem like an uphill treadmill.

Thin-layer chromatography’s ability to simply and inexpensively provide high-quality separations in parallel makes it the perfect partner for MALDI mass spectrometry

Nanoporous gold helps ‘sieve out’ biological debris for fuss-free nucleic acid detection

Kickstarter technology is nothing new – but Clear Labs is making in-roads into something less common: kickstarter analytical science

Is the heat applied in gas chromatography-mass spectrometry really responsible for false results? And, if so, how often?

Peer reviews, Power Lists and the effects of heat (in GC and discussions).

The 2015 Power List will likely thrill, disappoint and annoy in (possibly) equal measures – but what does it mean to the people on it? In short: don’t take it too seriously...