MALDI TOF mass spectrometry has been used to identify the clothing of Ötzi the Iceman (in RCM; hat tip to MW).
Mass Spectrometer Confirms Mars Water
NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander thermal and evolved-gas analyzer ( TEGA) has identified water in a mars soil sample.
QTOF Lecture
Raising the bar on scientific presentation production values.
LHC Rap
(via)
Video Archive: The Mass Spectrometer
A 1988 video from the University of Hertfordshire Science Centre.
ACS Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions Podcast
The American Chemical Society has a podcast on the use of chemistry to solve far-reaching global problems.
A Conversation with Fred W. McLafferty
The Oral History Project of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University has a 90 minute streaming video interview of mass spectrometry pioneer Fred McLafferty (Apple Quicktime required).
Blog this Article
The on-line Journal of Chemical Physics has a “Blog this Article” button, for example:
Resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization and fragmentation of molecular beams: NO, I2, benzene, and butadiene
J. Chem. Phys. 71, pp. 1359-1371 (1979)
Wikipedia Statistics
Here is a site that produces a graph of hit counts for Wikipedia articles. For example mass spectrometry had 43319 hits in February, about one to two thousand hits per day (via).
FBI’s New Technology Revolutionizes DNA Analysis
From National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, January 28, 2008:
“The newest wrinkle [in forensic DNA analysis] involves a rather innocuous-looking machine called a mass spectrometer, which is, in essence, a glorified scale that weighs individual molecules.”
Academic Interviews
Rays of Positive Electricity and Their Application to Chemical Analyses
Google Books has a digitized and searchable versions of J. J. Thomson’s Rays of Positive Electricity and Their Application to Chemical Analyses both the 1913 Edition as well as the 1921 Edition. There are also downloadable PDFs of the books.
Chromatography Video
Here is another video in need of a mashup.
Computational MS Demo
From the University of California at San Diego.
Update: direct link to above page.
Ion Mobility Separation Animation
A well-crafted animation of ion trapping and mobility separation. It lacks a soundtrack, but it’s easy enough to add one.
Scivee: Science TV
YouTube with science videos, a project with the Public Library of Science, the National Science Foundation, and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (via).
Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry and the Tour de France
Italian Christian Moreni tested positive for synthetic testosterone with the isotope ratio mass spectrometry procedure.
Cyclotrons, Synchrotrons, Mass Spectrometers, and Cloud Chambers
Blogroll Cleaning
TIme for a blogroll cleaning. The old blogroll is in the comments.
MALDI Sample Preparation: The Ultra Thin Layer Method
A video tutorial article in the Journal of Visualized Experiments on MALDI sample preparation from Brian Chait’s Mass Spectrometry Group at Rockefeller University. JoVE is an online biological sciences video journal.