February 2013 Issue of The Analytical Scientist

Open source hardware offers exciting prospects but demands a fresh way of thinking.

Can isotope analysis uncover enough pieces to build a better picture in a truly cold murder case ...

A century of Nobel Prizes in analytical science chart the progress of the field and the origins of modern ...

Angelo Cecinato has been measuring psychotropic substances in the air of Italy’s major cities.

How mass spectrometric imaging of complex surfaces, such as animal tissue, is being expanded with a position- ...

Waters Corp. and the FERA launch second International Food Safety Training Laboratory.

Analytical scientists have become caught up in a new meme on Twitter recently. For those not ...

At the end of 2012, uBiome launched the world’s first crowdsourced research on the human microbiome.

Free and open-source scientific hardware has the potential to liberate collective intelligence and cut ...

Three ways that the analytical scientist could – and should – play a more active role

The development of analytical techniques requires a healthy balance between technology push and ...

The Internet appears to satisfy our need for information and communication ...

Here’s a six-point plan to maximize the value of one scientific forum. Could these ideas work in ...

How analytical chemistry contributes to understanding and preserving our cultural heritage ...

Spatial information derived from macroscopic maps provides important ...

Elemental distribution distinguishes different phases of a work of art by Hans Memling and sheds ...

Material identification studies using SERRS add to the knowledge of particular objects and the ...

How the ingredients of Roman medicines can be determined using a multi-analytical approach ...

Recent advancements in analytical chemistry are beginning to highlight not only the potential of ...

The integration and application of powerful post-genomic technologies is required for food scientists to meet their latest challenges.

Current methods to detect food proteins that cause adverse immune response can, and are, being improved ...

Can miniaturization and microfluidic advances take ‘taste’ and ‘smell’ to the next level?

A toxicological point of view can help close off concerns about bioaccumulating compounds

Conflict is a natural and healthy element of communication.

A Pfizer structure elucidation scientist teams up with Bruker’s software programmers to go 3D.

Sitting Down With Pat Sandra, Chairman of the Research Institute for Chromatography and Emeritus Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of Ghent

February saw The Analytical Scientist speak with Pat Sandra, Chairman of the Research Institute for Chromatography...

Sample preparation method to extract and analyze ‘Bath Salts’ using Supported Liquid Extraction (SLE).

New roles and applications in the areas of science & technology are continuously being found for synthetic polymers.