The inaugural MicroTAS Video Competition, run by microfluidics specialist Dolomite and Lab on a Chip, and supported by the Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society, saw first prize awarded to an enterprising – and highly creative – entry submitted by Tijmen Hageman from the Korean Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) Europe GmbH in collaboration with the Unviersity of Twente.

How is the shiny tinsel that decorates many Christmas trees made? Today it's mostly made of plastic. But did you know tinsel used to contain chemical elements like lead, aluminum, or copper? Find out all about tinsel's chemistry history in this very special holiday episode of Speaking of Chemistry.

Pittcon is pleased to announce the 2015 Technical Program that includes over 2,000 technical presentations offered in symposia, oral sessions, workshops, awards, and posters.

In this presentation, we will show the development of a workflow using a very generic extraction procedure and full scan MS/MS and high resolution MS and MS/MS data acquisition to confidently identify and accurately quantify targeted and non-targeted chemicals based on retention time, accurate mass, isotope pattern, sample-control comparisons, MS/MS library searching, empirical formula finding, ChemSpider searching, and automatic MS/MS fragment ion interpretation.

Seeding Labs’ focus on building human connections is key to its ongoing success.

Princeton University Press, in partnership with Tizra, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and California Institute of Technology, announces the launch of THE DIGITAL EINSTEIN PAPERS . This unique, authoritative resource provides full public access to the translated and annotated writings of the most influential scientist of the twentieth century: Albert Einstein.

If you take a look at history and some of the greatest achievements ever made, you’ll find that the people who made those breakthroughs were a little off.

In the past few years I’ve heard more and more phrases like “work spouse,” “work bestie,” and “office neighbor.” In fact, it’s not uncommon for adults to meet at least one of their close friends through work. With work imitating life these days, “breakups,” no doubt, can affect us on the job, too.

“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”
– Phil Jackson

Year-long program helps move technologies to the market.

This program lays out the rules for success – a perspective of how being a little “off” might be the secret. History shows that the people who end up changing the world are considered nuts, until they’re right, then, they’re geniuses. Learn how to ‘live out loud’ and remember – impossible is only an opinion.

Find out how to enter this year's challenge in which entrants must explain to an 11-year-old what sleep is.