The M908 took the top spot in our 2013 Innovation Awards – “Revolutionary technology; will be an inspiration for new generations,” said the judges. Here, four co-founders of 908 Devices describe the perfect storm that led to the creation of the world’s first handheld mass spectrometer.

Sponsor companies proudly present their impressive contributions to the analytical science community.

Accurate measurement drives progress in science in immeasurable ways. Here, we celebrate a year’s worth of advances in The Analytical Scientist Innovation Awards 2014. What impact will these 15 TASIA winners have on your field?

How can we avoid band broadening and distortion of high performance liquid chromatographic peaks in the second dimension?

Will the future see crime scene investigators collecting nasal swabs or rinses from deceased victims to identify the assailant? In a word: yes.

A technique can only make it into the upper echelons of analytical chemistry with a strong, balanced team. And that means bringing together fundamental researchers, application specialists, and instrumentation experts on a well-supported playing field.

I’ve been lucky enough to spend time in the grey area between analytical spectroscopy and atomic physics. It’s fascinating and enlightening – but is it chemistry?

We dived into our analytics to find the most popular online articles. Here, we present a thought-provoking quote from each of the top ten.

A new World Community Grid project harnesses excess computational power donated by volunteers to screen millions of candidate drug molecules

Performing GC-MS on a speeding comet certainly sounds like science fiction...