Throughout any given year, the National Academies convene hundreds of conferences, workshops, symposia, forums, roundtables, and other gatherings that attract the finest minds in academia and the ...

As the National Institute of Standards and Technology placed a hold a proposed reorganization of its Information Technology Laboratory (ITL), critics of the plan proposed making the lab's Computer ...

NIST investigators are basing their probe on computer simulations and nonquantitative evidence, such as videos of the collapse, photos of damage and specimens taken from the debris pile. Two months ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced the appointment of Kevin Stine as the new director of the agency’s ...

Researchers are working on many fronts to remove technical roadblocks to effective lab-on-a-chip technology. One roadblock is limited sensor shelf life. Now, researchers at NIST and the Naval Research ...

The chairman of the House panel with oversight over the National Institute of Standards and Technology is at odds with NIST leaders on making its Computer Security Division a laboratory, the agency's ...

A hidden hazard lurks beneath many of the roughly 156,000 gas stations across the United States. The hazard is corrosion in parts of underground gas storage tanks—corrosion that could result in ...

Question: How many measurement scientists does it take to screw in an LED lightbulb? Answer: For researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), half as many as it took a few ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and HDR have announced they have received “high honors” in R&D magazine's 2005 Lab of the Year competition for NIST's Advanced Measurement ...

This panel will review the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Engineering Laboratory (EL). The Panel will produce a report that addresses the study's statement of task. The National ...