In an unusual intersection of materials science and anthropology, researchers from NIST and The George Washington University have applied materials-science-based mathematical models to help shed light on the dietary habits of some of mankind's prehistoric relatives.
NIST has developed a new certified reference material that can be an important quality assurance tool for measuring the amounts of vitamins, carotenoids, and trace elements in dietary supplements.
The bacterium behind one of mankind's deadliest scourges, tuberculosis, is helping researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) move closer to answering the decades-old question of what controls the switching on and off of genes that carry out all of life's functions.
NIST has issued a new reference material to aid in the detection and measurement of the potent carcinogen hexavalent chromium in soil. The new reference material will provide a crucial benchmark for the high-quality chemical measurements needed to guide and assess cleanup efforts.
NIST engineers are patenting a method that is expected to double the service life of concrete. The key is a nano-sized additive.
NIST researchers have discovered that a carefully built magnetic sandwich has dramatically enhanced sensitivity to magnetic fields and could lead to greatly improved magnetic sensors for a wide range of applications from weapons detection and non-destructive testing to medical devices and high-performance data storage.
An exotic metal alloy discovered by an international collaboration working at NIST's Center for Neutron Research may be the key to a new quieter, more economical class of home and commercial refrigeration systems based on magnetics rather than conventional gas compression and expansion.
NIST researchers have developed a method to accelerate stability testing of biodiesel fuel made from soybeans and identified additives that enhance stability at high temperatures, work that could help overcome a key barrier to the practical use of biofuels.
Using nanoscale 'test tubes' NIST researchers have demonstrated how terahertz spectroscopy can reveal the dynamic behavior of biomolecules like amino acids and proteins in water, important data for understanding their complex molecular behavior.
Researchers from NIST and Rice University have demonstrated a simple, inexpensive way to induce carbon nanotubes to 'self-assemble' in long, regular strands, a useful technique for studying nanotube properties and potentially a new way to assemble nanotube-based devices
NIST researchers have devised a new method to cast arrays of metal oxide nanotubes to create novel gas sensors that are a hundred to 1,000 times more sensitive than current devices based on thin films.
While exploring the properties of polymer formation a team of scientists at NIST made a fundamental discovery about these materials that could improve methods of creating the stable crystalline films that are widely used in electronics applications -- and also offer insight into a range of other phenomena.
Physicists at the Joint Quantum Institute have proposed a recipe for manipulating ultracold mixtures of atoms into a 'supersolid,' an exotic state of matter that behaves simultaneously as a solid and a friction-free superfluid.
NIST has issued a draft guide on protecting personally identifiable information (PII) such as social-security and credit-card account numbers from unauthorized use and disclosure.
NIST has announced nine awards for new research projects to develop advanced sensing technologies that would enable timely and detailed monitoring and inspection of the structural health of bridges, roadways and water systems that comprise a significant component of the nation's public infrastructure. The awards are the first to be made under NIST's new Technology Innovation Program.
The Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence"”described by one industry CEO as "probably the single most influential document in the modern history of American business""”have now been updated.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is interested in detailed pitches for critical national and societal needs that could be the basis for new competitions for research funding under its Technology Innovation Program (TIP).
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently published a paper with recommendations for genealogy testing that they hope will improve the accuracy and reliability of products that help to trace a person's genetic geneaology.
2008 will be a little longer than normal this year. But not so much that you'll be embarrassingly early to that New Year's Eve party.
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a method to measure the toughness"”the resistance to fracture"”of the thin insulating films that play a critical role in high-performance integrated circuits.
An electromagnetic phantom"”a carbon and polymer mixture that simulates the human body"”is being readied by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for its upcoming role as a standardized performance test for walk-through metal detectors such as those used at airports.
Electronic technologies could be deployed immediately and reliably to augment slower postal mail for distributing ballots to U.S. citizens living abroad, but using telephone, e-mail, and the Web to transmit completed ballots still faces significant, unresolved issues, according to a new report* released today.
Scientists at NIST have developed software that improves the accuracy of the tracking devices in immersive, or virtual-reality, research environments by at least 700 percent. Their advance is a step forward in transforming immersive technology that has traditionally been a qualitative tool into a scientific instrument with which precision measurements can be made.
Carbon, the active ingredient in charcoal, is normally not considered a fire retardant, but researchers at NIST have determined that adding a small amount of carbon nanofibers to the polyurethane foams used in some upholstered furniture can reduce flammability by about 35 percent when compared to foam infused with conventional fire retardants.
Researchers at NIST and the University of Queensland have demonstrated that they can count, size and gauge the quality of virus-like particle-based vaccines much more quickly and accurately than previously possible. Their findings could reduce the time it takes to produce a vaccine from months to weeks, allowing a much more agile and effective response to potential outbreaks.
The National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) has just published a new strategic plan to guide the activities of the four federal agencies that participate in the program for the next five years.
A new testing procedure just published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) represents the final step in a decade-long effort led by NIST to unite the United States with the rest of the world in evaluating the performance of coordinate measuring machines (CMMs).
Researchers at NIST have found that several simple steps can significantly improve the quality of facial images that are acquired at border entry points such as airports and seaports.
Researchers at NIST have proposed a new, economical method to allow LED and lighting manufacturers to obtain accurate, reproducible, and comparable measurements of LED brightness and color.
Researchers working at NIST have demonstrated for the first time the existence of a key magnetic property of specially built semiconductor devices that raises hopes for even smaller and faster gadgets that could result from magnetic data storage in a semiconductor material.
Researchers at NIST have demonstrated their ability to measure relatively low levels of stress or strain in regions of a semiconductor device as small as 10 nanometers across. Their recent results not only will impact the design of future generations of integrated circuits but also lay to rest a long-standing disagreement in results between two different methods for measuring stress in semiconductors.
NIST announced today that three organizations are the recipients of the 2008 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation's highest Presidential honor for organizational innovation and performance excellence.
NIST has awarded grants totaling more than $24 million to three universities to provide cost-shared support for the construction of new scientific research facilities for precision quantum measurements, oceanography and ecology.
NIST held a rescue robot exercise in Texas last week in which about three dozen robots were tested by developers and first responders in order to develop a standard suite of performance tests to help evaluate candidate mechanical rescuers.
NIST today released its final report on the Sept. 11, 2001, collapse of the 47-story World Trade Center 7 (WTC 7) in New York City. Strengthened by clarifications and supplemental text received during a public comment period on the draft report, the major findings and recommendations -- including identification of fire as the primary cause for the building's failure -- were not altered.
The World Cup may be two years away but soccer aficionados can get an early start at satisfying their yen for global competition when NIST and the RoboCup Federation host the second-ever international nanosoccer contest next summer.
Federal government and U.S. industry scientists say they are forging ahead with plans for an international, on-line collaboration to speed up creation of critically needed nanotechnology standards, including the underpinning reference materials and tests that support development of nanotech products while minimizing potential risks.
Researchers at NIST are decoding the mysterious mechanisms behind the high-temperature superconductors that industry hopes will find wide use in next-generation systems for storing, distributing and using electricity.
Extremely small nanoscale particles are released by common kitchen appliances in abundant amounts, greatly outnumbering the previously detected, larger-size nanoparticles emitted by these appliances, according to new findings by NIST researchers.
Electroshock weapons, such as stun guns and other similar devices that temporarily incapacitate a person by delivering a high-voltage, low-current electric shock, have helped law enforcement officers safely subdue dangerous or violent persons for years. Researchers at NIST are working toward a standard method for accurately assessing the electrical output of these devices, the results of which can be used in establishing baselines for future medical and safety studies.
NIST has licensed a patented 'optical tweezers' technique for detecting and measuring very small concentrations of a biological substance, such as a virus on a surface.
Scientists at NIST have developed a radical new method of focusing a stream of ions into a point as small as one nanometer, a versatile ion source that is expected to have broad application in nanotechnology both for carving smaller features on semiconductors than now are possible and for nondestructive imaging of nanoscale structures with finer resolution than currently possible with electron microscopes.
Each year the Baldrige Program recruits experts from business, education organizations, health care providers, nonprofits and other groups to serve on the Board of Examiners for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Examiners evaluate applications for the Award and prepare feedback reports to applicants that cite strengths and opportunities for improvement.
Buildings in the United States account for more than 40 percent of the nation's total energy consumption, and that is just one of their impacts on the environment. In a major statement on "green" building technology, a new report from the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) sets out a broad agenda for research and development on technologies to decrease use of natural resources and improve indoor environments while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful pollutants from the building sector.
A novel technique under development at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) uses a relatively inexpensive optical microscope to quickly and cheaply analyze nanoscale dimensions with nanoscale measurement sensitivity.
As the weather grows cold and people start planning for the holidays, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have released two new research videos that illustrate the benefit of having sprinkler systems in homes. Scientists exposed two dry Christmas trees to an open flame in a living room mock-up built inside their laboratory and recorded the results.
Marrying a sensitive detector technology capable of distinguishing hundreds of different chemical compounds with a pattern-recognition module that mimics the way animals recognize odors, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created a new approach for "electronic noses."
Engineers long have known that great ideas can be lifted from Mother Nature, but a new paper by researchers at Yale University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) takes it to a cellular level.
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have discovered that when training insects to respond to smells, the interval between the signal, or odor, and the reward"”delicious sugar water"”is everything.
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Colorado School of Mines (CSM) have developed a prototype sensor that quickly detects very small amounts of hydrogen accumulation in coated pipeline steel.
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