Diet, medications, and beauty products leave molecular traces on the objects we touch, providing an unbiased, data-driven profiling method for crime scene investigations and other potential applications

Scientists create reagents to simplify production of fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals 

The chemistry behind how comets might have seeded life on Earth

A new structural alert system could reduce years and millions of dollars from bringing a new drug or product to market

The test could lead to rapid, low cost roadside testing for cocaine use

Latest spectrometer design is more sensitive to chemical fragments and can distinguish between isomers with more than one carbon atom

Anita Shah currently works at Doctor’s Data, Inc. (DDI), as that company’s elements technical manager.

Researchers have developed a new, portable breath analyzer that could someday help doctors diagnose diabetes noninvasively in the office

Analysis of diamonds provides a look inside Earth's mantle

Ability to see beyond the grayscale promises future of revelations

Unlike expensive explosive-detecting puffer machines in airports that rely on complicated mass spectrometry or high-performance liquid chromatography equipment, these liquid crystal sensors could be portable, wearable, and inexpensive.

A sensing technique that the U.S. military currently uses to remotely monitor the air to detect potentially life-threatening chemicals, toxins, and pathogens has inspired a new instrument that could “sniff” for life on Mars and other targets in the solar system