This sounds exciting and I’m happy but I didn’t understand a word of it.
Basically, they can detect that you farted without you knowing you have farted.
It can tell you which elements a material is made of.
Carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, etc. Each element has a “spectrum.”
Same idea when they look at stars and planets.
Apparently, they had troubles decoding more complicated molecules.
identifying viral structures more readily may mean that they will find a way to kill the little buggers more easily like you know that viruses put up a protein shield to make them selves invisible to immune systems but i also read somewhere that there is work to make that shield visible to immune systems anyways the more they know about viruses the well and good we will all be in the longer run
Now, when some thug gets gunned down by an armed citizen defending himself from a mugging, the media can say, “He was an aspiring mass spectrometer.”