A walk along most any body of water—inland or ocean—will soon reveal plastic waste, and this is just the big things, like soda bottles. read more

Maybe more than anything else, scientists explore nature with light. read more

To analyze trace elements—metals and nonmetals— in a sample, scientists often turn to inductively coupled plasma/mass spectrometry (ICP/MS). read more

Writing this article in southwest Ohio, only a couple hours of driving from the renowned Kentucky Bourbon Trail, I can appreciate the value of improving whiskey with gas chromatography (GC) plus high-resolution accurate-mass (HRAM) mass spectrometry. read more

“In an ideal world, spectrophotometers would be capable of measuring the entire electromagnetic spectrum on a single instrument platform, generating a variety of types of information from the sample,” says Ian Robertson, IR/NIR applications chemist at PerkinElmer. read more