Sports is big business, which is why leagues and federations are desperate to keep their franchises honest. In the US, Major League Baseball (MLB) received a record $9 billion in revenues in 2014, while the National Football League took in close to $10 billion. 

Once gas chromatography (GC) separates a sample into its component parts, a detector identifies them. All detectors provide certain benefits and struggle with some limitations. Whether some feature is beneficial or detrimental, however, depends on the sample and the application.

Criminals with a penchant for dyeing their hair could soon pay for their vanity.

In 2014, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) built on a 62-year tradition of translating basic science into technologies that ensure national security, address pressing real world problems and expand the boundaries of fundamental science.

University of Utah engineers develop material for better detectors.

Analysis of archived mummy reveals murdered young female with Chagas disease.

A fly’s sense of smell could be used in new technology to detect drugs and bombs, new University of Sussex research has found.

Technique will likely have applications in forensic science and donor organ monitoring.

Shimadzu to offer instruments at discount, including full service plan.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued for public review and comment a draft report summarizing 65 challenges that cloud computing poses to forensics investigators who uncover, gather, examine and interpret digital evidence to help solve crimes.

Much as human DNA can be used as evidence in criminal trials, genetic information about microorganisms can be analyzed to identify pathogens or other biological agents in the event of a suspicious disease outbreak. The tools and methods used to investigate such outbreaks belong to an emerging discipline known as microbial forensics, but the field faces substantial scientific and technical challenges, says a new report from the National Research Council.

Rapid Identification of Synthetic Cannabinoids in Herbal Samples via Direct Analysis in Real Time Mass Spectrometry— R. A. Musah, M. A. Domin, M. A. Walling, and J. R. E. Shepard, Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom., vol. 26, no. 9, pp. 1109–1114, 2012.