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August 2016
Welcome to the August issue! Our Upfront section covers Zika sensors, NASA flying labs and Polynesian artifacts, as well as updates on the analytical science business world, and sharing what SciX speakers are looking forward to at this year’s conference. MA-XRF is the real star of the show, as art experts uncover the secrets beneath paintings by van Gogh and others. And whether measuring maple syrup, detecting galactic dark matter or sampling deep-sea sediment, our image feature shows the beauty that can be found in our analytical world.
Russia, ‘Roids and Rio
August 18, 2016
What’s next in the battle of “medals versus morals”?
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Chromatography
Chromatography
Gas Chromatography
Mass Spectrometry
Petrochem
Food, Beverage & Agriculture
Sponsored
VUV En Vogue
August 16, 2016
In just a few short years, vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) detection for GC has risen from novel curiosity to serious contender. Here, Kevin Schug, Nicholas Snow and Luigi Mondello share GC-VUV thoughts and experiences.
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Chromatography
Chromatography
Liquid Chromatography
Food, Beverage & Agriculture
Data and AI
News and Research
Technology
Sponsored
Cheers to UHPLC!
August 16, 2016
Rainer Bauder raises a glass to more reproducible, more efficient, and more productive analytical workflows in the beverage industry.
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Forensics
Forensics
Clinical
Chromatography
Liquid Chromatography
Omics
Metabolomics Lipidomics
Spectroscopy
Health & Security
August 15, 2016
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What Lies Beneath
August 15, 2016
Ever wanted to understand the thought process of Rubens or the creative process of van Gogh? Modern analytical techniques and passionate analytical scientists are digging up the answers to such questions – and discovering a new world of art that has been lost for centuries.
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X-Ray Visionary
August 15, 2016
Sitting Down With... Koen Janssens, Full Professor of General and Analytical Chemistry, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
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Spectroscopy
Spectroscopy
Mass Spectrometry
Environmental
Chromatography
Liquid Chromatography
Chromatography
Gas Chromatography
Food, Beverage & Agriculture
Chromatography
Forensics
Omics
Metabolomics Lipidomics
ANALYTIC × AESTHETIC
August 15, 2016
For the third year running, we bring together two very different but complementary worlds to prove that scientists have a real eye for beauty.
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Business & Entrepreneurship
Business & Entrepreneurship
Chromatography
Gas Chromatography
Mass Spectrometry
Data and AI
Sample Preparation
Sample Prep, Screening and Software in the Cloud
August 15, 2016
What’s new in business this month?
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Great SciX-pectations Part II
August 15, 2016
As 2016’s “Great Scientific Exchange” draws closer, we ask six spec experts why you should attend
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A Sense of Security
August 15, 2016
Dual-comb spec offers “elegant” way to screen for explosives
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Blue Sky Science
August 15, 2016
PTR-TOF-MS takes a trip on NASA Flying Lab to analyse South Korea’s atmosphere
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Adze Marks the Spot
August 15, 2016
Polynesian artifacts matched to their source with ICP-MS-driven ‘geochemical fingerprints’
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Putting Zika to the Test
August 15, 2016
Promising low-cost point-of-care ZIKV diagnostic works without electricity
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The Selfless Scientist
August 11, 2016
How do you feel in a ‘supporting role’? If you’re an analytical specialist – whether chromatographer, spectrometrist or chemometrician – I salute you!
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