Earlier, people depended on touchstone tests or the local jeweller’s word. Those methods were quick but not always accurate.

AVIRIS-5 is one of the newest tools in a joint research project from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) called GEMx. The project is designed to search for surface traces of critical minerals, ...

Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) remains one of the most powerful analytical tools for trace element and isotope analysis.

Ocean Optics reports on how spectroscopy revolutionizes research by utilizing light to analyze materials, improving accuracy ...

In recent years, heat has stopped being just a number on a thermometer and has become something we can literally see at the atomic scale. In 2025, an ...

The General AntiParticle Spectrometer experiment is suspended from a football-field-sized balloon about 24 miles above the ...

ABB will develop the concept for a unique version of its infrared spectrometer for Canada’s Lunar Utility RoverThe instrument would analyze the ...

BioRender helps scientists draw biological diagrams more easily and communicate more efficiently. It's used by half a million ...

A multilayered semiconductor acting as an optical sensor opens the way to miniaturized, adjunct spectrometers.

A method developed by LANL researchers can help investigators determine source of unknown nuclear fuel in just 30 minutes.

Viruses are typically described as tiny, perfectly geometric shells that pack genetic material with mathematical precision, but new research led by scientists at Penn State reveals a deliberate ...

The microscopic processes taking place in superconductors are difficult to observe directly. Researchers at the RPTU University of Kaiserslautern-Landau have therefore implemented a quantum simulation ...