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News and Updates for 2026
Gatorade Recall: How Visible Spectroscopy Can Help Verify Food Dyes in Beverages
Established UV-Vis methods provide a rapid approach to identifying and quantifying synthetic color additives in sports drinks, helping manufacturers strengthen formulation and labeling quality control. A recent recall involving more than 122,000 cases of Gatorade has...
TRACE: A StellarNet Halloween Spectroscopy Mystery
It was a frightful afternoon at StellarNet, and the team decided to play a new board game: TRACE. TRACE is a spectroscopy-inspired whodunit game filled with suspicious substances, questionable alibis, and spectral evidence. During each turn, players accuse a coworker,...
Red Dyed Diesel: How Portable Spectroscopy Measures Fuel Dye Concentration
Red dyed diesel—also known as red diesel, off-road diesel, dyed diesel, or farm diesel—has suddenly become a national topic. On October 5, 2026, President Donald Trump signed an executive order temporarily allowing dyed diesel to be sold for and used on U.S. highways...
StellarNet Partnership Spotlight – Evident
StellarNet and Evident Collaborate to Deliver Integrated Microscopy and Spectroscopy Solutions Delivering Modular Spectroscopy and Microscopy Systems Researchers and manufacturers increasingly require more than high-resolution images to fully understand the...
Application Note: Cyclospora Food Saftey
The 2026 Cyclospora outbreak linked to iceberg lettuce highlights a persistent challenge in food production: contamination can move through the supply chain before conventional testing identifies a problem. Emerging research suggests that NIR, Raman/SERS, chemometrics...
The SpectraWizard’s Spectroscopy Application Challenge Results 2026
The SpectraWizard’s Spectroscopy Application Challenge has come to a close! 🌍✨ Spectroscopists from across the globe went head-to-head for a shot at $5,000 in StellarCash. We’re thrilled to announce the winning spectroscopy application below — and don’t...
The SpectraWizard’s Spectroscopy Application Challenge Winner 2026
What if you could watch a solar cell form—and learn how to make it better while it is happening? That idea helped researchers from The University of Osaka and Kyoto University earn First Place in StellarNet’s 6th Annual Spectroscopy Application Challenge for their...
Spectroscopy Lab Experiments
Turn light into a hands-on learning experience with StellarLab. Designed for educational laboratories, these ready-to-use experiments help students explore spectroscopy and radiometry through practical measurement, analysis, and real-world applications.How much food...
Featured in Pet Food Media on NIR Ingredient Verification
StellarNet President Jason Pierce was recently featured in Pet Food Media with the article “Looking Beyond Pass/Fail: New Approaches to Ingredient Verification in Pet Food Manufacturing.” As pet food manufacturers expand ingredient portfolios and work with...
August Celestial Events
August is an exciting month for skywatchers, with several spectacular celestial events lighting up the sky. On August 12th, a total solar eclipse will cross parts of Greenland, Iceland, and Spain, while the Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak that same night under...