For decades, the ability to visualize the chemical composition of materials, whether for diagnosing a disease, assessing food quality, or analyzing pollution, depended on large, expensive laboratory ...

For decades, bulky spectrometers have been the main tools for understanding how things are made of chemicals (a thing called composition). Spectrometers are a type of lab equipment that uses prisms or ...

Wilson C, Holden S, King J, et al. Trained dogs can detect the odor of hemangiosarcoma in canine blood samples. Vet J. 2025 Nov 29;315:106522. doi:10.1016/j.tvjl.2025.106522. PMID: 41319895.

Where starlight doesn't reach, new things are born: For the first time, an international research team has directly measured ...

Light is the fastest phenomenon in the universe, clocking in at just under 300,000 kilometers per second. The telescopes that observe that light, from radio waves to gamma rays, are built at rather ...

Using chemistry, archival records and AI, scientists are reviving the aromas of old libraries, mummies and battlefields ...

Expert Intelligence, a startup building artificial intelligence systems to automate decision-making in regulated lab environments, today announced it has raised $4.7 million in a seed funding round.

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The ESIS-II mission aims to capture high-speed “snapshot” images of the Sun’s transition region and corona. To achieve this, ...

A new anthology on plastics in art reveals the philosophical conundrums and contradictions at the heart of a material the ...