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Innovation in Spectroscopy Could Improve Greenhouse Gas Detection
Release Date: 05/14/2013 Detecting greenhouse gases in the atmosphere could soon become far easier with the help of an innovative technique* developed by a team at the … more
Forensics@NIST 2012 Webcast Now Available
Release Date: 01/07/2013 On November 28 -30, 2012, NIST hosted the Forensics@NIST symposium at its Gaithersburg, Maryland campus. The symposium featured three days of … more
Pollutants Could Pose Health Risks for Five Sea Turtle Species
Release Date: 06/27/2012 Researchers at the Hollings Marine Laboratory (HML) and four partner organizations have measured for the first time concentrations of 13 … more
Report Details Efforts to Improve, Advance Indoor Microbial Sampling
Release Date: 05/29/2012 Humans spend greater than 90 percent of their time indoors, but we're never alone there. Bacteria and viruses, scientists estimate, make up … more
NIST/UMass Study Finds Evidence Nanoparticles May Increase Plant DNA Damage
Release Date: 04/17/2012 Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) have provided the … more
NIST Provides Octagonal Window of Opportunity for Carbon Capture
Release Date: 02/07/2012 Filtering carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, from factory smokestacks is a necessary, but expensive part of many manufacturing processes. However, … more
NIST 'Catch and Release' Program Could Improve Nanoparticle Safety Assessment
Release Date: 06/07/2011 Depending on whom you ask, nanoparticles are, potentially, either one of the most promising or the most perilous creations of science. These tiny … more
Silver Cycle: New Evidence for Natural Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles
Release Date: 05/10/2011 Nanoparticles of silver are being found increasingly in the environment—and in environmental science laboratories. Because they have a … more
Silver Cycle: New Evidence for Natural Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles
Release Date: 05/10/2011 Test line 5 on 3/17/2013 10:54 PM by yyao. Nanoparticles of silver are being found increasingly in the environment—and … more
Marine Lab Research Tracks Pollutants in Dolphins and Beluga Whales
Release Date: 05/10/2011 Bottlenose dolphins* and beluga whales**, two marine species at or near the top of their respective food webs, accumulate more chemical pollutants … more
The Secret Behind NIST's New Gas Detector? Chirp Before Sniffing
Release Date: 05/10/2011 Trace gas detection, the ability to detect a scant quantity of a particular molecule—a whiff of formaldehyde or a hint of … more
NIST Technique Controls Sizes of Nanoparticle Clusters for EHS Studies
Release Date: 02/02/2011 The same properties that make engineered nanoparticles attractive for numerous applications—small as a virus, biologically and … more
Eggs Show Arctic Mercury Cycling May Be Linked to Ice Cover
Release Date: 01/19/2011 An international research team working with National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) scientists at the Hollings Marine Laboratory … more
The Perfect Nanocube: Precise Control of Size, Shape, and Composition
Release Date: 08/31/2010 With growing interest in using nanoparticles for everything from antibacterial socks to medical imaging to electronic devices, the need to … more
'Instant Acid' Method Offers New Insight into Nanoparticle Dispersal in the Environment and the Body
Release Date: 06/09/2010 Using a chemical trick that allows them to change the acidity of a solution almost instantly, a team at the National Institute of Standards and … more |
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