The Common Data Format Workshop, to be held Oct. 29 and 30 at NIST’s campus in Gaithersburg, Md., will bring together election officials, auditors,…
This year’s expanded conference includes several new conference tracks on the use of security automation in support of healthcare IT/Health Information…
Beryllium, an exotic rare-earth metal used as a hardener in high-performance alloys and ceramics, can cause berylliosis—a chronic, incurable and sometimes…
The team’s work has the long-term goal of developing quantum computers, but it has borne fruit that may have more immediate application in medical science….
Designed to be the most accurate commercially available “meter stick” for the nano world, the new measuring tool—a calibration standard for X-ray…
In cooperation with colleagues at The Johns Hopkins University, Dartmouth College, the University of Manitoba and two biopharmaceutical companies, the NIST…
By combining this new microfluidic “droplet-on-demand” method with “optical tweezers” that could merge multiple droplets and cause their molecular contents to…
This is one of the unexpected findings from recent research that may affect how researchers and resource managers rely on indicator bacteria to determine if…
Permeating the region is a diffuse haze of X-ray light from gas that has been heated to millions of degrees by winds from massive young stars – which appear to…
Many plants have evolved to endure harsh environmental conditions, yet the detailed mechanisms of plant stress resistance have long remained unclear. A single…
A neuroscience research jointly conducted by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) has led to the discovery of…
Transhumance has fallen in some parts of Spain by up to 80% over the past four years. The scientists say that traditional livestock farming practices are…
The tool will form part of a new £1.7 million Syngenta University Centre at Imperial College London, announced today, which will see researchers from Imperial…
Collaborating teams from the University of York in the UK and the University of Calgary in Canada combined their expertise in molecular genetics and…
Dr. Jorge Serrador, from Harvard Medical School, worked with a team of researchers, including NASA scientists, to carry out the tests. He said, “While a role…
Drawing upon current scientific understanding of the Earth System, the scientists make a first attempt to identify and quantify a set of nine planetary…