Science news articles about 'mass spectrometer'

  • Mini 11 - World's Smallest Mass Spectrometer Sniffs Out Bioterrorism And Explosives

    ... have completed development of the world's smallest complete mass spectrometer (MS), the Mini 11, a miniature version of a standard lab device (some of which would dominate ...
  • Caltech physicists create first nanoscale mass spectrometer

    ... at a high frequency and effectively serve as the "scale" of the mass spectrometer. "The frequency at which the resonator vibrates is directly ... to create arrays of perhaps hundreds of thousands of the NEMS mass spectrometers, working in parallel, which could determine ...
  • NASA selects SwRI mass spectrometer for technology development funding

    NASA has selected Southwest Research Institute's MAss Spectrometer for Planetary EXploration (MASPEX) for technology ... Material Explorer (PriME) mission proposal, the mass spectrometer was selected to further advance NASA ...
  • FSU geochemist challenges key theory regarding Earth's formation

    ... tool known as an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer, or ICP-MS, to measure the distribution of palladium within the sample. “At the highest pressures and temperatures ...
  • Dinosaur diggers bring mobile lab, new techniques to Eastern Montana

    ... year, it may also contain a scanning electron microscope and mass spectrometer with analytical capabilities. The entire truck has electricity, air conditioning and heating. It has room underneath ...
  • Membrane complexes take flight

    ... membrane complexes can be maintained intact in the vacuum of a mass spectrometer. Their research is published in this week's edition ... once transferred to the alien conditions inside the mass spectrometer. "Even if interactions between proteins within ...
  • US detector sniffs out biological, chemical threats

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new kind of mass spectrometer can sniff out biological, chemical and nuclear threats, all at virtually the same time, U.S. government researchers said on Thursday.
  • Membrane complexes take flight

    ... of Cambridge and Bristol have revealed that the interactions within membrane complexes can be maintained intact in the vacuum of a mass spectrometer. Their research is published in this week's edition ...
  • Lavas from Hawaiian volcano contain fingerprint of planetary formation

    ... 's Origins Laboratory. The instrument, a plasma source mass spectrometer funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the University of Chicago, separates ions (charged ...
  • Primate's scent speaks volumes about who he is

    ... response to these scents. But under a gas chromatograph and mass spectrometer, postdoctoral fellow Boulet found that the powerful musk resolves into at least 203 different chemical ...
  • Laser spectrometer developed by Rutgers-Newark researchers

    ... changes in C-14 requires using an accelerator mass spectrometer (AMS), which is as large as a room, expensive ... applications in drug testing and environmental monitoring, the spectrometer also can provide for enhanced carbon dating. In carbon ...
  • Scientists search for answers from the carbon in the clouds

    ... aerosol mass spectrometer developed by chemists from Aerodyne Research Inc. and Boston College is giving ... are Billerica, MA-based Aerodyne's Aerosol Mass Spectrometer, Boulder-based Droplet Technologies ...
  • Golden scales

    ... in a single kilogram. While there have been other NEMS that function as mass sensors before, most of these previous devices were fashioned ... samples such as proteins. Also unlike mass spectrometers, our carbon nanotube mass sensor becomes more sensitive ...
  • Being a control freak aids dividing cells

    ... at once, his team used an instrument called a mass spectrometer to essentially take a wide-angle ... —into small pieces called peptides, and fed these into a mass spectrometer. The instrument distinguished between otherwise identical ...
  • Newly discovered proteins in seminal fluid may affect odds of producing offspring

    ... . This made the female proteins in the specimens invisible to our mass spectrometer. We then could pick out the transferred male proteins." This same isotope labeling method, MacCoss ...

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