GCMS and the Smell of Old Books

The newest -omics: Digging Into the Science of That Old-Book Smell in the New York Times and Material Degradomics: On the Smell of Old Books in Analytical Chemistry.

Audio Periodic Table

Periodic table with audio annotations from the Royal Society of Chemistry (via).

Mass Spectrometry Word Cloud

From Wordle using Yahoo Pipes.

Spezify Mass Spectrometry

Another search page mashup.

Driving Biological Discovery Using Quantitative Mass Spectrometry

A lecture by John Yates III of the Scripps Research Institute at the La Jolla Proteomics Conference, July 2, 2008.

Alpha and Beta Calutrons

Contemporary photographs of alpha and beta Calutrons at Oak Ridge.

How a Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer Works

Mickey Laux of Orange Coast College explains how a quadrupole mass spectrometer works.

VisWiki

A Wikipedia mashup.

FT-ICR-MS Magnet Quench

Video of a Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer magnet quenching with resulting cryogen boil off.

ASMS on Twitter

The American Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference is being "tweeted" on #ASMS. There is even an RSS feed RSS feed. Also see #massspec or search for mass spectrometry.

PerkinElmer Acquires Analytica

PerkinElmer has acquired the electrospray ionization and mass spectrometry technology company Analytica of Branford.

18th IMSC Abstract Deadline

April 30^th is the deadline for abstract submission for the 18th International Mass Spectrometry Conference in Bremen, Germany, August 30 – September 4, 2009.

Slideshare

Slideshare is like Youtube for Powerpoint presentations. For example:

Tandem Mass Spectroscopy Basics

View more presentations from cwebster.

Mass Spectrometry on Linkedin

The social networking site Linkedin has a group for mass spectrometry. Linkedin is similar to FaceBook, but focuses on professional networking.

Mass Spectrometry Hits on Wikipedia

Mass spectrometry on Wikirank

A graphical representation of the popularity of the Wikipedia page on mass spectrometry.

MIT Mandates Open Access to Research Publications

The MIT faculty has a adopted a policy that mandates open access to their scholarly publications. This follows similar moves by Harvard and Stanford (via).

Mass Spectrometry Twitter Feed

Mass spectrometry has a Twitter feed.

RNA Biology to Require Wikipedia Publication

Starting in 2009, the journal RNA Biology will require that authors submitting to their RNA Families section also submit a Wikipedia page summarizing the work. Both will be peer reviewed. For example, Jones, et al. RNA Biology 6, 1-4 (2009) has a corresponding Wikipedia page SmY RNA (via).

Accelerator Mass Spectrometry in Biology and Health Care

Lecture from UCTV.

Electrospray Videos

On Youtube.

Also:

Nanospray : Sweet

Electrospray Ionization with Syringe Pump

Electrospray Taylor Cone

Initiating Nanospray

Tickling the Inlet