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Workshop Aims to Establish Standards for Voting Machine Data

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,…

Event News

October IT Security Automation Conference to Highlight Healthcare IT, Cloud Computing

This year’s expanded conference includes several new conference tracks on the use of security automation in support of healthcare IT/Health Information…

Health & Medicine

New Beryllium Reference Material for Occupational Safety Monitoring

Beryllium, an exotic rare-earth metal used as a hardener in high-performance alloys and ceramics, can cause berylliosis—a chronic, incurable and sometimes…

Physics & Astronomy

Diamonds: The Future of MRI Probes in Medical Science

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….

Physics & Astronomy

New NIST Nano-Ruler Sets Some Very Small Marks

Designed to be the most accurate commercially available “meter stick” for the nano world, the new measuring tool—a calibration standard for X-ray…

Life & Chemistry

Therapeutic Nanoparticles Give New Meaning to Sugar-Coating Medicine

In cooperation with colleagues at The Johns Hopkins University, Dartmouth College, the University of Manitoba and two biopharmaceutical companies, the NIST…

Life & Chemistry

New Nanochemistry Technique Encases Single Molecules in Microdroplets

By combining this new microfluidic “droplet-on-demand” method with “optical tweezers” that could merge multiple droplets and cause their molecular contents to…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

How Good Are Indicator Bacteria at Predicting Pathogens in Recreational Water?

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…

Physics & Astronomy

New Vista of Milky Way Center Unveiled

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…

Life & Chemistry

Flipping the stress tolerance switch

Many plants have evolved to endure harsh environmental conditions, yet the detailed mechanisms of plant stress resistance have long remained unclear. A single…

Life & Chemistry

Brain research by PolyU and CAS published in Nature journals

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…

Environmental Conservation

Transhumance Boosts Vulture Conservation in Spain

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…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

New Computing Tool Enhances Crop and Pesticide Innovation

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…

Life & Chemistry

Pruning Secrets: How It Helps Plants Thrive Effectively

Collaborating teams from the University of York in the UK and the University of Calgary in Canada combined their expertise in molecular genetics and…

Life & Chemistry

How Balance Organs Influence Brain Blood Flow

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…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Planetary Boundaries: A Safe Space for Humanity

Drawing upon current scientific understanding of the Earth System, the scientists make a first attempt to identify and quantify a set of nine planetary…

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