Surprising chemical complexity of Saturn's rings changing planet's upper atmosphere
Political humorist Mark Russel once joked, "The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage."
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Researchers make meth in their lab for drug-test device
A University of North Texas professor and one of his graduate students have spent the last nine years making meth, fentanyl and PCP in a lab.
Blue crystals in meteorites show that our Sun went through the 'terrible twos'
Our Sun's beginnings are a mystery. It burst into being 4.6 billion years ago, about 50 million years before the Earth formed. Since the Sun is older than the Earth, it's hard to find physical objects that were around in ...
Mass spectrometry technique helps identify forged Robert Burns manuscripts
A team of researchers at the University of Glasgow has developed a mass spectrometry technique to identify forged manuscripts. In their paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, the group describes their technique ...
Researchers can count on improved proteomics method
Every cell in the body contains thousands of different protein molecules and they can change this composition whenever they are induced to perform a particular task or convert into a different cell type. Understanding how ...
Scientists shrink chemistry lab to seek evidence of life on Mars
An international team of scientists has created a tiny chemistry lab for a rover that will drill beneath the Martian surface looking for signs of past or present life. The toaster oven-sized lab, called the Mars Organic Molecule ...
Finding trace material in waste materials
Last year Empa's inorganic analytics lab was granted the status of "Reference Laboratory" within the scope of the ProSUM project, funded by the EU. Fine-grained samples of shredder waste from scrapped cars, e-waste or mine ...
Researchers design upgrade device for mass spectrometers
Researchers from Skoltech and MIPT have developed a device for upgrading mass spectrometers used to analyze the chemical makeup of unknown substances. The new device analyzes one substance from four different perspectives. ...
Chemists develop new method to identify proteins
Proteins are the worker bees of the cell, mainly ganging up to form macromolecular, multicomponent complexes to perform intricate cellular tasks.
More efficient method devised to drug test athletes
It will now be easier, faster and cheaper to catch athletes who take performance-enhancing drugs.
