Towards the Holy Grail of Chemical Threat Detection
By James Strachan
January 16, 2026
Agilent’s Steve Wood talks trends in chemical threat detection – and the quest for a multi-method, AI-enhanced, robotic “sniffer dog”
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Hidden Drugs Revealed By Tandem Mass Spectrometry
December 17, 2025
By matching mass spectra to curated references, the GNPS Drug Library links patient samples to over 2,000 drugs, metabolites, and environmental chemicals
2 min read
Study Rewrites the Story of a Swedish Ingot
December 9, 2025
New compositional evidence links Sweden to wider Iron Age metal networks across the Baltic
1 min read
LIBS Under Pressure
By James Strachan
December 8, 2025
From deep-sea archaeology to ocean intelligence, Marcel Rieck explores the frontiers of laser spectroscopy in extreme environments
4 min read
Drug Detection in Under Five Minutes
December 2, 2025
A simple cotton swab and low-temperature plasma MS enable rapid, green detection of drug residues across multiple surfaces
2 min read
Not Flesh: How “Dinosaur Mummies” Were Preserved
By James Strachan
November 10, 2025
New analyses show Edmontosaurus “mummies” are not fossilized skin, but microbial clay molds – reshaping assumptions about soft-tissue preservation
2 min read
Ancient DNA Links Crimean Neanderthal to Siberia
November 7, 2025
Multi-omics analysis reveals unexpected genetic ties between a Crimean Neanderthal and distant Siberian populations
2 min read
Life on Enceladus? Saturn Sows Seed of Doubt
By James Strachan
October 27, 2025
Could Saturn’s magnetosphere be producing the organic molecules thought to originate from Enceladus?
5 min read
Titan's Unorthodox Crystals Challenge Chemistry Canon
October 27, 2025
Polar and nonpolar molecules form unexpected cocrystals on Saturn's moon, defying a core rule of chemical solubility
3 min read
Spectral Mystery on Mars Finally Solved
October 23, 2025
Lab match identifies elusive Martian mineral linked to hydrothermal activity – and possible past habitability
1 min read
