Forensics

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!

You might think you know who won, but the race isn’t over until the analytical scientists have had their say…

Cheating athletes may be on the cusp of being able to enhance their sports performance through gene modification. But could we ever know?

Since 1968, 142 summer Olympic Games medal results have been impacted by doping violations, with 74 percent of those identified retrospectively