Forensics

Chemical profiles of smokeless powders are often the only link between the offense and the offender. Can we profile faster and with greater precision?

Michelle Wood talks us through some of the biggest challenges and trends in the forensics field today

How MANDRAKE gathers intelligence, shares information with the police and develops new technologies to combat the UK’s synthetic cannabinoid epidemic

Sex, age, pathology, and now, with imaging mass spectrometry, whether you’ve recently taken cocaine or heroin…

Joerg Koehler explains how Bruker is working with Bavarian police to develop new spectroscopy-based tools for forensic narcotics analysis

How water cluster SIMS can differentiate between ingested and non-ingested cocaine on a person’s fingertips

Welcome to the challenging, potentially perilous, and (unfortunately) increasingly relevant field of chemical warfare agent analysis

Our annual Mass Spectrometry Supplement explores application notes from leading companies spanning the breadth of MS research

Could analytical technologies be used to reconstruct the smells of the past?

To all honorable athletes out there, be careful where you source your supplements – they could be laced with anabolic steroids!