How we can innovate by setting aside critical and logical thought processes, and embracing the lost skill of imagination.

From a seventeen-year vantage point, I offer these recollections into the development of a technology-based consulting business.

We sample the views of five food analysis experts. Is separation science still the greatest thing since sliced bread, or are there bigger fish to fry?

The development of Orbitrap™ has taken up all of my professional life. It’s been a story of luck, perseverance, and, ultimately, success.

Incorporating updated analytical methods and approaches into pharmacopoeias – the bibles of pharmaceutical standards – would save a great deal of time and money.

An article by Monika Dittmann on volume-based HPLC triggered a debate on the practicality of the concept. Here, we present the questions that were raised and how they were answered.

Is there a pecking order for scientists? If so, how is it determined and what does it mean?

Taiwan proudly set the tightest limits on glyphosate, but failed to measure the herbicide

Having thrust 100 analytical scientists to the heights of stardom in our 2013 Power List, we went back to assess the reaction of colleagues, friends and family. The response was mixed.

Do you have big data, lots of questions, and no expertise? This crowd-sourced data analysis platform could be the answer – if you can afford it