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Buyer’s Guide: Choosing the Best GC Columns

Friday, October 22, 2021

Capillary or packed? WCOT or SCOT? Narrow-bore or megabore? Read this guide for help answering some of your pressing GC ... read more

Buyer’s Guide: Light Sources for UV/Vis Spectrophotometry

Monday, November 22, 2021

Important aspects to consider when choosing a UV/Vis light source are wavelength range, emission intensity, stability, ... read more

Countdown to Success: 5 Strategies for Smart Lab Design

Tuesday, November 01, 2022

Taking a bird’s eye view of everything from budgets to building facades will help us build the next generation of safe, ... read more

COVID-19 Wastewater Testing: Overview and Product Roundup

Friday, August 27, 2021

Learn the benefits and basics of SARS-CoV-2 wastewater-based epidemiology and the tools available for WBE programs read more

Creating Intelligent Labs Through the Internet of Things

Friday, December 06, 2019

Tanya Jamison

A detailed look into how intelligent laboratories through the Internet of Things (IoT) have been improved and how IoT is... read more

Digital Data Logging to Achieve Safe Storage and Compliance

Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Rob Fusco

A monitoring system with data logging capabilities provides an ongoing record of critical information to make sure ... read more

DOZN™ 2.0: A Quantitative Green Chemistry Evaluator

Monday, January 13, 2020

Ettigounder Ponnusamy

The DOZN™ 2.0 web-based, quantitative greener alternative scoring matrix is based on the 12 Principles of Green ... read more

Electron Microscopy Helps Get to the Root of Soil Pollution

Tuesday, May 24, 2022

SEM not only allows risk elements to be examined in detail, but also helps evaluate methods to remove soil contaminants ... read more

Exploring the Potential of DART-MS in the Characterization of Complex Matrices

Thursday, March 09, 2023

Three case studies demonstrate how direct analysis in real-time mass spectrometry (DART-MS) can overcome challenges and ... read more

Facilitating Reproducibility in Data-Rich Sciences

Monday, September 23, 2019

Manuel C. Peitsch

Reproducibility is the bedrock by which scientific validity can be established and one of the central principles ... read more

FTIR Sample Handling Buyer's Guide

Friday, September 24, 2021

Breaking down four common sample handling techniques and the components you'll need for each type read more

Green Lab, Blue Planet

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Steve Ernst

Speaking with Allison Paradise, the executive director and co-founder of my green lab (www.mygreenlab.org), is a heady ... read more

Greenhouse Gas Analysis: An Application of the Past, Present and Future

Friday, June 10, 2022

A renewed urgency to address global warming has brought gas chromatography into the forefront, with continued hardware ... read more

Growth of Mass Spec From 1960s to Present: Interview With Professor O. David Sparkman

Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.

Professor O. David Sparkman of University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA, is a recognized authority on mass spectrometry... read more

Harnessing Humidity with Chilled Mirror Hygrometry

Tuesday, August 31, 2021

The principle and precision of chilled mirror hygrometry is demonstrated by testing the efficiency of two common ... read more

Helium Reduction and Alternative Carrier Gases for Gas Chromatography

Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Strategies for reducing helium usage not only benefit us in the current shortage, but also allow us to be better ... read more

How to deal with unstructured data in the lab

Monday, November 11, 2019

Steve Yemm

The use of unstructured data, which includes text files (spreadsheets, emails, word files, etc.) and machine-readable ... read more

How to Prepare for New PFAS Regulations

Monday, July 26, 2021

Greater attention to "forever chemicals" by the federal government signals a likely increase in demand for fast and ... read more

Hungry?

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Steve Ernst

Each year, 48 million Americans suffer from a foodborne illness. Of that number, 120,000 will require hospitalization ... read more

Innovative GC Technology is Key to Agilent’s Success: Interview With Agilent President and CEO, Mike McMullen

Tuesday, June 12, 2018