As compared to organic chemistry, which is a study dedicated to carbon-containing compounds, the area of inorganic chemistry examines the properties and behaviors of all other compounds including ...

Researchers typically keep two microscopes in the lab — a traditional upright device for viewing dry slides and an inverted microscope to examine live samples. San Diego start-up Echo has created a ...

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (SSI) and Northern Michigan University (NMU) have partnered to establish the Shimadzu Analytical Core Laboratory for Medicinal Plant Sciences. Through this ...

After visiting research labs in South America and seeing the equipment scientists in developing countries have to conduct research, Lina Nilsson, a bioengineering postdoc at the University of ...

AT a luncheon of the Physical Society in Cambridge shortly before his death, Sir J. J. Thomson commented whimsically on the equipment needed in a present-day physical research laboratory. When he ...

Organic chemistry is a scientific area of study that is used to describe the structure, properties, composition, reactions and preparation of all chemical compounds containing the element carbon. Some ...

Three scientists will share the prize for developing microscopes that can study living cells in fine detail. Working independently, they took on a problem that many had assumed couldn't be solved.